In business and politics, gifts are often aimed at influencing the recipient at the expense of third parties. In an … experimental study, which removes informational and incentive confounds, subjects strongly respond to small gifts even though they … and sociological theories about gifts creating an obligation to reciprocate. We capture these effects in a simple …

We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift-exchange wage and the effect of the worker …

assumption that humans can assess the quality of algorithms. We test this assumption by conducting an online experiment with 1263 …

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study …

In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a …

second half of the paper tests the theoretical predictions in an experiment. In contrast to previous literature, the …