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Corrupted by algorithms? : how AI-generated and human-written advice shape (dis)honesty
Leib, Margarita; Köbis, Nils; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice (generated by a Natural-Language-processing algorithm) affects (dis)honesty, compare it to equivalent...
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Anger and strategic behavior: a level-k analysis
Castagnetti, Alessandro; Proto, Eugenio - 2020
Anger is an important driver in shaping economic activities, particularly in instances that involve strategic interactions between individuals. Here we test whether anger impairs the capacity to think strategically, and we analyze the implications of our result on bargaining and cooperation...
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Lessons from behavioral economics to improve treatment adherence in parenting programs : an application to SMS
Ajzenman, Nicolas; López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
A growing literature shows how insights from behavioral economics can be successfully adopted in simple interventions through SMS or other types of low-cost communications. In this short, note we provide concrete basic guidelines to design behaviorally informed messages, based on theory and our...
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The influence of dietary patterns on outcomes in a Bayesian choice task
Dickinson, David L.; Garbuio, Caleb - 2021
This paper reports on a preregistered study aimed at testing for executive function differences across individuals who self-reported one of four distinct dietary patterns: No Diet, No Sugar, Vegetarian, and Mediterranean Diet patterns. The incentivized decision task involves Bayesian assessments...
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Inequality, institutions and cooperation
Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020
relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large … corruption environments. We find that corruption leads to more pessimistic beliefs about others' contributions in heterogeneous … groups, and this is an important mechanism explaining our results. In doing so, we highlight the indirect costs of corruption …
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The dynamics of inattention in the (baseball) field
Archsmith, James; Heyes, Anthony; Neidell, Matthew; … - 2021
Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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Behavioral economics and the value of a statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...
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Improving tax compliance without increasing revenue: evidence from population-wide randomized controlled trials in Papua New Guinea
Hoy, Christopher; McKenzie, Luke; Sinning, Mathias - 2020
This paper studies the impact of "nudges" on taxpayers with varying tax compliance histories in Papua New Guinea. We present the results from two population-wide randomized controlled trials in a setting that is characterized by low compliance rates and a lack of effective enforcement. We test...
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Predictors of social distancing and mask-wearing behavior: panel survey in seven U.S. states
Nikolov, Plamen; Pape, Andreas D.; Tonguc, Ozlem; … - 2020
This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in seven U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic characteristics, we collect data on various economic preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and...
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Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments: evidence from a natural field experiment
Kassis, Mark; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, Dominik; … - 2020
In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...
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