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In this note, we present a novel computerized real effort task based on moving sliders across a screen which overcomes many of the drawbacks of existing real effort tasks. The task was first developed and used by us in Gill and Prowse (American Economic Review, forthcoming). We outline the...
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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research hasexploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
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artefactual field experiment and evaluate whether the change in the state space influences our selected indicators of preferences …
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vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …
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We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …
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exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange …
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Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly understood. Experimental methods can isolate systematic deviations from an asset's fundamental value in a...
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they are really the most challenging ones for conventional theory. New developments are emerging both at the theoretical …
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problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and …
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