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In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of two different choice architectures on donation decisions. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities; in the control group we do not provide a list. In...
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experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played behind closed doors. We find large and statistically...
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We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a manipulation to identify the role of positive and...
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Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the relative importance of preferences and...
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endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …
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