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' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much to pay) in a natural experiment at an online music store with PWYW …%. The experiment suggests that even low levels of social pressure without face to face interaction on customers leads to a …
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Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and …-demographic information have limited predictive power in both treatments. -- artefactual field experiment ; children ; envy ; altruism …
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We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable …
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much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … is needed to identify what, then, drives the development of envy during childhood. -- artefactual field experiment …
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We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation …
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Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
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of the experiment indicate that targeting is an effective instrument to promote trustful behavior, whereas subsidy policy …
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We study experimentally whether heterogeneity of behavior in the Centipede game can be interpreted as the result of a learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the opponent's past behavior. We manipulate the...
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subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …
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projects have demonstrated that the mechanism is efficiency enhancing. Our experiment tests whether the mechanism remains …
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