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We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different …
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experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
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Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology...
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We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find that heterogeneity in beliefs and changes in beliefs with experience are central to understanding...
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coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either … ; individual decision-making ; team decision-making ; experience-weighted attraction learning ; experiment …
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The paper presents a new meta data set covering 13 experiments on the social learning games by Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch (1992). The large amount of data makes it possible to estimate the empirically optimal action for a large variety of decision situations and ask about the economic...
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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Austria. We exploit random variation from a field experiment which varied the content of mailings sent to potential evaders of …
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common to preferences in this class. We illustrate our approach by analyzing data from a large scale experiment conducted … with a sample of participants randomly drawn from the Dutch population. We find that behavior of players in the experiment … determinant of decisions in our experiment. -- belief-dependent preferences ; guilt aversion ; reciprocity ; partial …
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of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment …
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