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This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an enforcement agency to detect and …
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In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...
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Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner's dilemma environment where each person can decide whether or...
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exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada to identify empirically the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P …
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literature is that market experience is endogenous. This study presents a framed field experiment that exogenously induces market …
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exists a utility function that the choices maximize. We conduct a large-scale field experiment that enables us to test …, and is little changed when we add controls for past income, risk tolerance and the results of a standard personality test …
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changes. We formally test for the number of modes in the price change distribution of 36 supermarkets, spanning 22 countries …, Hartigan's Dip and Silverman's Bandwidth, and a test designed in this paper, called the Proportional Mass test (PM). Three main … retailers. When we used the PM test, which reduces the impact of smaller modes in the distribution and can be applied to test …
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design an experiment that treats the two goods (a mug and a pen) symmetrically in all but in the probabilities with which … they are expected to be owned. Thus, our "endowmentless" endowment effect experiment shuts down all alternative mechanisms …
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This paper estimates social effects of incentivizing people in teams. In two field experiments featuring exogenous team formation and opportunities for repeated social interactions, we find large team effects that operate through social channels. The team compensation system induced agents to...
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Thousands of resumes were sent in response to online job postings across multiple occupations in Toronto to investigate why Canadian immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor market. Resumes were constructed to plausibly represent recent immigrants under the point system from...
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