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We provide evidence that long-term relationships between trading parties emerge endogenously in the absence of third party enforcement of contracts and are associated with a fundamental change in the nature of market interactions. Without third party enforcement, the vast majority of trades are...
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representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
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We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...
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The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity …
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
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into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females … migrants, who have constituted a large demographic group in Germany since the 1970s. In the field experiment presented here … photograph included in the application material. Germany was the ideal location for the experiment as job seekers typically …
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a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
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changes. We tested this prediction by conducting a randomized field experiment with bicycle messengers. In contrast to … preferences, since the wage in our experiment directly rewarded effort. We show that a simple model of loss averse, reference …
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pressure not to study. The experiment studied here used a school-based randomization design offering awards to all students in …
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applied for welfare between January 1994 and March 1995. It turned out only 3,315 took part in the experiment despite a 50 … external validity of the experiment. We compare the estimated impact of the program using experimental data only to that … obtained using additional data on individuals not taking part in the experiment. We find strong evidence of non-response bias …
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