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Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
Dahl, Gordon B.; DellaVigna, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from 1995 to … 2004, and study the effect on same-day assaults. We find that violent crime decreases on days with larger theater audiences … the audience for violent movies reduces violent crime by 1.1 to 1.3 percent. After exposure to the movie, between 12AM and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710474
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Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
Levitt, Steven; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The "Hawthorne effect," a concept familiar to all students of social science, has had a profound influence both on the direction and design of research over the past 75 years. The Hawthorne effect is named after a landmark set of studies conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. The first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025629
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The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations
list, john; Hossain, Tanjim - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led to important new insights concerning what can happen in markets. Such gains in knowledge have come primarily via laboratory experiments--a missing piece of the puzzle in many cases is parallel evidence drawn from naturally-occurring field...
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics
list, john; Al-Ubaydli, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...
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The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law %u2013 the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of our...
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. When given the option, dictators do a large fraction of giving...
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Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig Elliott; Lange, Andreas; list, john; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Several recent laboratory experiments have shown that the use of explicit incentives--such as conditional rewards and punishment--entail considerable "hidden" costs. The costs are hidden in the sense that they escape our attention if our reasoning is based on the assumption that people are...
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The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Landry, Craig Elliott; Lange, Andreas; list, john; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
to advance our understanding of the economics of charity and test if such "costs" exist in the field. This approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321297
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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
Slonim, Robert L; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate, and more so the higher the value of the rewards....
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Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Ederer, Florian; Ferman, Bruno; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately identify two channels of social influence in financial decisions, both widely studied theoretically. When someone purchases an asset, his peers may also want to purchase it, both...
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