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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

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Network Structure and Education Outcomes : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Hahn, Youjin - 2015

We study the causal impact of network centrality on educational outcomes using field experiments in primary schools in Bangladesh. After obtaining information on friendship networks, we randomly allocate students into groups and give them individual and group assignments. We find that groups...

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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition Among University Students

Bigoni, Maria - 2011

This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students' effort. We collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual characteristics are observed. Students are randomly assigned...

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Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments : An Artefactual Field Experiment

Cadsby, Charles Bram - 2015

Tournaments are widely used to assign bonuses and determine promotions because of the link between relative performance and rewards. However, performing relatively well (poorly) may also yield psychological benefits (pain). This may also stimulate effort. Through a real-effort artefactual field...

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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership : A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...

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Gender and the Labor Market : What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala - 2014

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

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Cooperation, Competition, and Risk Attitudes : An Intergenerational Field and Laboratory Experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

The population of most developed societies is graying. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these labor-force...

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...

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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013

particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period.Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

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Roma and Bureaucrats : A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination

Mikula, Štepán; Montag, Josef - 2023

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...

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