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driven by envy even though it generates direct utilitarian gains. That share rises as the role of envy is made more salient …
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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 …
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Different theories of price stickiness have distinct implications on the number of modes in the distribution of price changes. We formally test for the number of modes in the price change distribution of 36 supermarkets, spanning 22 countries and 5 continents. We present results for three...
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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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the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been …
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exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into …
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