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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 … Kenya asked dairy cooperative members to allocate both an irregular windfall and their regular milk payments between two …
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Naϊve learning in social networks with fake news : bots as a singularity
Badri, Saeed; Heidergott, Bernd; Lindner, Ines - 2022
We study the impact of bots on social learning in a social network setting. Regular agents receive independent noisy signals about the true value of a variable and then communicate in a network. They na¨ıvely update beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of neighbors' opinions. Bots...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472296
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378827
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Grow rich while you sleep : selection in experiments with voluntary participation
Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349714
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Knowing that you matter, matters! : the interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition
Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337021
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338674
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The magic of the personal touch : field experimental evidence on money and appreciation as gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne - 2016
This paper makes use of two field experiments to explore individual effort responses to gifts. We extend the literature by looking at nonfinancial gifts and gifts that combine financial and nonfinancial elements with or without adding a ``personal touch.'' We find that non-pecuniary gifts that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483832
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Does relative grading help male students? : evidence from a field experiment in the classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2014
-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399683
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Bidding to give in the field : door-to-door fundraisers had it right from the start
Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J. C.; Soetevent, … - 2011
In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386444
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How to reduce discrimination? : evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer
Dur, Robert A. J.; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022 - This version: 17 January 2022
, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817152