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field experiment to measure the average effects of the treatment on eligible and ineligible subjects for the program in the …
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We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...
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This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of fictitious resumes that are sent to real vacancies, we randomly assign activities undertaken by...
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This paper uses the control function to develop a framework for testing for selection bias. The idea behind our … magnitude of potential selection bias. Averaging this correction term with respect to appropriate weights yields the degree of … selection bias for alternative treatment effects of interest. One advantage of our framework is that it motivates when is …
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects … job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment …
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Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash-cliffs"). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for low DI outflow. We analyse a conditional cash program that incentivises work related reductions of disability...
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conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Bangladesh recruiting males from the ethnic majority (Bengali) and an …
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resistance among social scientists who argue that lab experiments lack "realism" and "generalizability". In this article we …
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on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … a large extent. -- field experiment ; cooperation ; social disapproval ; social preference ; competition ; Japan …
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study …
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