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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online
Arechar, Antonio - 2017
. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … reducing dropout and show that, for our case study, dropouts are exogenous to the experiment. We conclude that data quality for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963854
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Women, Children and Patience : Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158525
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian - 2010
broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146471
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To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
We examine whether shrouding or partitioning of a surcharge raises demand in online shopping. In a field experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315163
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Order Effects in Eliciting Preferences
Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2023
Having an accurate account of preferences help governments design better policies for their citizens, organizations develop more efficient incentive schemes for their employees and adjust their product to better suit their clients' needs. The plethora of elicitation methods most commonly used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346015
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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior a Randomized Educational Intervention
Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023
We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...
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Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Meier, Stephan - 2011
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134641
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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets
Anand, Rahul - 2010
In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a two-sector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139035
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Right to Buy? Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
van Ham, Maarten - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139062
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Disclosure, Trust and Persuasion in Insurance Markets
de Meza, David - 2010
This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139875