Showing 1 - 10 of 843
In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation …, while regulation in turn discourages social capital accumulation, leading to multiple equilibria. A key implication of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757998
literature is that market experience is endogenous. This study presents a framed field experiment that exogenously induces market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127977
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131234
Evidence from laboratory experiments suggests that important disparities exist between willingness to pay (WTP) and compensation demanded for the same good. This study advances, and experimentally tests, a new explanation of the WTP/WTA disparity--a dynamic theory based on the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069109
fairness. We corroborate the interpretation of our findings with a choice experiment of a costly decision to donate money to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891786
We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our … evidence is informative about job seekers' willingness to pay for flexible jobs of the types offered in the experiment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895490
An enormous literature documents that willingness to pay (WTP) is less than willingness to accept (WTA) a monetary amount for an object, a phenomenon called the endowment effect. Using data from an incentivized survey of a representative sample of 3,000 U.S. adults, we add one (probably)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945150
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this among women living in poor households in urban Macedonia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011928
The endowment effect is among the best known findings in behavioral economics, and has been used as evidence for theories of reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion. However, a recent literature has questioned the robustness of the effect in the laboratory, as well as its relevance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076912
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098476