curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects …

public schools in Houston, Texas, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across two years, principals were … both years of the experiment demonstrate large treatment effects in both years - particularly those with principals who are …

platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status … goods. The final experiment shows that increasing self-esteem causally reduces demand for status goods. We infer that part …

The theory of expected utility maximization (EUM) explains risk aversion as due to diminishing marginal utility of … numerical cognition, and test its ability to explain the choice frequencies that we observe in a laboratory experiment …

prevent safe inferences about differences in social preferences. We present new evidence from a natural field experiment in …

substitutability. We conduct the first field experiment directly manipulating individuals' beliefs about others' protest participation …