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Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip - 2010
the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135398
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Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
Card, David - 2011
We study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated a particular behavior (sex, smoking, marijuana use, truancy) by the first wave of the survey, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124547
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The Importance of Being Marginal : Gender Differences in Generosity
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2013
explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087452
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Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2016
We design a model-based field experiment to estimate the nature and magnitude of workers' social preferences towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997885
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International Environmental Agreements Among Heterogeneous Countries with Social Preferences
Kolstad, Charles D. - 2014
Achieving efficiency for many global environmental problems requires voluntary cooperation among sovereign countries due to the public good nature of pollution abatement. The theory of international environmental agreements (IEAs) in economics seeks to understand how cooperation among countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052684
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The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Levitt, Steven D. - 2016
a randomized field experiment. High school freshmen were provided monthly financial incentives for meeting an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995991
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Peer Effects in the Workplace : Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments
Guryan, Jonathan - 2010
This paper uses the random assignment of playing partners in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759808
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Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions
Flory, Jeffrey - 2010
observe gender imbalances in labor markets: men are more competitively inclined than women. Whether, and to what extent, such … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … attenuate the gender differences, including whether the job is performed in teams, whether the job task is female-oriented, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135766
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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination
Castillo, Marco - 2012
We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … inferior treatment of men we conduct an experiment where passengers send a signal on valuation before negotiating. The signal … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106212
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Referrals : Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment
Bryan, Gharad - 2014
individual liability, we develop and implement a two-stage field experiment that permits separate identification of peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066523