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have a salient market price or no market price outside of the experiment. …
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the demand for three environmental policies, comprising nudges, monetary incentives, and punishments. I elicit the demand … for these interventions through decisions in a pro-environmental real effort task. The experiment introduces exogenous …
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We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to … subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … effect, which captures the extent to which the spillover effects are affected by the incentives exerted on the previous pro …
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In a tedious real effort task, subjects know that their piece rate is either low or ten times higher. When subjects are informed about their piece rate realization, they adapt their performance. One third of subjects nevertheless forego this instrumental information when given the choice - and...
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avoidance in a real-effort setting. Our experiment offers three main results. First, we confirm that preferences for avoidance …
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We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect … dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being …
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Traditionally, incentives to promote behavioral change are assigned rather than chosen. In this paper, we theoretically … and empirically investigate the alternative approach of letting people choose their own incentives from a menu of … and benefits, we theoretically show that leaving them the choice of incentives can improve both adherence and welfare. We …
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This paper shows that agent inattention to taxes generates a time-inconsistency problem in the choice of tax policy. In … equilibrium, inattention leads to inefficiently high tax rates and a taxation bias emerges. Combining structural and sufficient …. Overall, our findings shed new light on the policy and welfare implications of inattention and misperceptions. …
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Willingness to vaccinate and test are critical in the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the effects of two measures to increase vaccination and testing: "choice architecture" and monetary compensations. Choice architecture has the goal of "nudging" people into a socially desired direction without...
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We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This 'static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well-studied moral...
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