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A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we …
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promote healthier sleep habits. Toward this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them …
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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Our paper conducts laboratory experiments with the sequential search model to test whether participants engage in search activities in line with theoretical predictions derived from the expected utility model or the reference-dependent model, without assuming any specific formulation rule for a...
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We investigate whether short-term everyday stressors leads to unhealthier dietary choices among low socioeconomic status mothers. We propose a novel stress protocol that aims to mimic everyday stressors experienced by this population, involving time and financial pressure. We evaluate the impact...
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. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … reducing dropout and show that, for our case study, dropouts are exogenous to the experiment. We conclude that data quality for …
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' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
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field experiment in the market for computer repairs. We find that revealing a second opinion from another expert to the …
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its...
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Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem - although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information...
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