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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …
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another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and …
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The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
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Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
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of causation in terms of Lewis's possible-world semantics, and reformulates the statistical potential outcome framework …
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on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …
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Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2 … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal …
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We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China …
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survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …
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