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In our framed laboratory experiment, two Public Officials, A and B, make consecutive decisions regarding embezzlement … with deterrence and one without. We find a peer effect in embezzlement in that facing an honest Official A reduces … embezzlement by Official B. Likewise, deterrence matters in that higher detection probabilities significantly decrease embezzlement …
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A linear public good experiment has been employed to investigate strategic behaviour in pollution abatement among … African climate decision-makers. The experiment consisted of three groups of which Group 1 did not receive any treatments, and …
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The paper presents the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in three South African townships located in the suburbs …
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In recent years, randomized controlled trials have become increasingly popular in the social sciences. In development economics in particular, their use has attracted considerable debate in relation to the identification of 'what works' in development policy. This paper focuses on a core topic...
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We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …
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Heterogeneity in subject populations often necessitates choosing an elicitation task that is intuitive, easy to explain, and simple to implement. Given that subject behaviour often differs dramatically across tasks when eliciting risk preferences, caution needs to be exercised in choosing one...
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We study the effect of affirmative action on effort in an experiment conducted in high schools in socioeconomically …
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We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...
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. We test this conjecture experimentally for the widely used Boston mechanism. Results show that, absent this information …
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to the other player's payoff. We test this experimentally in a developing country setting, the Philippines. We consider a …
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