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types can be exploited to enhance cooperation by structuring the twice-played prisoners' dilemma to “start small,” so that …
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paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner … useful information for designing efficient incentive mechanisms to induce cooperation in a stochastic social dilemma …
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against policies that impose direct costs even if they induce larger indirect benefits. Using a lab experiment, we find that a …
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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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important features of the data they possess. We conduct a field experiment with seaweed farmers to test a model of "learning …
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We partnered with the Ghanaian government to test simultaneously four methods of increasing achievement in schools with low and heterogeneous student achievement| assistant led remedial pull-out lessons, assistant led remedial after school lessons, assistant led smaller class sizes, or teacher...
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such an experiment in the laboratory, the cost to gather the data would be well over $350,000. The data reveal several …
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This paper examines experiments on interdependent security prisoner's dilemma games with repeated play. By utilizing a Bayesian hierarchical model, we examine how subjects make investment decisions as a function of their previous experience and their treatment condition. Our main findings are...
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increases. The experiment also points to new avenues for refining the theory. We find that, as the payoff of a successful …We conducted a laboratory experiment to test the comparative statics predictions of a new approach to collective action … also allows to decompose the mechanism that leads to more cooperation into a ”belief effect” and a ”range of cooperation …
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This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
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