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Intertemporal choice and income regularity : non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment

Kramer, Berber; Kunst, David - 2018 - This version: January 31, 2018

This paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type. A lab-in-the-field experiment in …

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The effects of student feedback to teachers : evidence from a field experiment

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2018

We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the … a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …

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The effect of community engagement on healthcare utilization and health insurance enrolment in Ghana : results from a randomized experiment

Duku, Stephen K. O.; Nketiah-Amponsahd, Edward; … - 2018

Background: Health insurance enrolment in many Sub-Saharan African countries is low, even with highly subsidized premiums and exemptions for vulnerable populations. This paper evaluates the impact of a community engagement intervention implemented in Ghana with the aim of improving clients’...

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Naïve learning in social networks with random communication

Heidergott, Bernd; Huang, Jiaping; Lindner, Ines - 2018

We study social learning in a social network setting where agents receive independent noisy signals about the truth. Agents naïvely update beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. The weights are fixed in the sense of representing average frequency and intensity of...

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The importance of emotions for the effectiveness of social punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - 2006

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...

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Deal or no deal? : decision-making under risk in a large-payoff game show

Post, Thierry; Baltussen, Guido; Assem, Martijn J. van den - 2006

We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...

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The interaction between explicit and relational incentives : an experiment

Sloof, Randolph; Sonnemans, Joep - 2009

We consider repeated trust game experiments to study the interplay between explicit and relational incentives. After having gained experience with two payoff variations of the trust game, subjects in the final part explicitly choose which of these two variants to play. Theory predicts that...

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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we …

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The impact of female sex hormones on competitiveness

Buser, Thomas - 2009

laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme …

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Going once, going twice, reported!

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Onderstal, Sander - 2013

We experimentally examine the effectiveness of antitrust policies against bidding rings in theEnglish auction (EN) and the first-price sealed-bid auction (FP). We consider both traditionalantitrust policy (without a leniency program) and modern antitrust policy (with a leniencyprogram). In EN,...

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