Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between …

We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household … that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how …

's contacts. However, results from a field experiment where broadcasting of the initial pledges was randomized suggest that the … observational findings were likely due to homophily rather than genuine social contagion effects. The experiment also shows that … (30 out of 6.4 million users reached) were made. Finally, an online survey experiment showed that both the presence of an …

display no difference in rationality from population averages and there is evidence of altruism among participants. We provide …

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … stronger influence on the joint decision. -- Household decision making ; risk ; field experiment ; China … preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint …