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Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

Babcock, Philip - 2011

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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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

why Canadian immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor market. Resumes were constructed to plausibly …

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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 …

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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

preferences yield differences in naturally-occurring labor market outcomes remains an open issue. We address this question by … exploring job-entry decisions in a natural field experiment where we randomized nearly 7,000 interested job-seekers into … the local labor market …

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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence

Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010

Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...

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You've Earned it : Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

Jakiela, Pamela - 2010

We combine data from a field experiment and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on … that randomized field experiments can be successfully combined with laboratory experiment data to measure causal impacts on …

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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which clearly must influence choices. Charities, for example,...

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Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2010

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy … and the market generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough. We test the … theoretical implications by implementing a competitive vote market in the laboratory using a continuous open-book multi …

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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2010

the influential HighScope Perry Preschool Program. The Perry program was a social experiment that provided preschool …

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Trading Complex Assets

Carlin, Bruce I. - 2010

We perform an experimental study of complexity to assess its effect on trading behavior, price volatility, liquidity, and trade efficiency. Subjects were asked to deduce the value of a particular asset from information they were given about the composition and price of several portfolios....

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