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Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance : A Survey Experiment

Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...

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Charity : Have the Rates of US Households Contributing Money or Time Declined?

Smith, Vincent Kerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses the responses to questions about charitable contributions from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) between 1992 and 2022 to consider the rates of US households contributing money or time to charitable organizations. The fraction donating $500 or more remained relatively...

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What Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Analysis of Transaction Experience and Endogenous Fairness Views

Herz, Holger - 2016

People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely …-dependent fairness preferences--either based on endogenous fairness reference points or based on shifts in salience--that can account for …

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State-Dependent Local Projections : Understanding Impulse Response Heterogeneity

Cloyne, James; Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

An impulse response is the dynamic average effect of an intervention across horizons. We use the well-known Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore a response's heterogeneity over time and over states of the economy. This can be implemented with a simple extension to the usual local...

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How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study

Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; Langa, Kenneth M.; Halpern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental survey that cross-randomized cognitive impairment,...

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Generation Next : Experimentation with AI

Charness, Gary; Jabarian, Brian; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the potential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance scientific practice within experimentation by identifying key areas, directions, and implications. First, we discuss how these models can improve experimental design, including improving the elicitation wording, coding...

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Directed Giving : Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia - 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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Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion : Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

Griffin, John D. - 2011

groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for …

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Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the combined effects of popularity and feelings of being important to reaching a goal by testing how people react to situations in which their own behavior is pivotal or not, as well as the popularity of the action. We conduct a laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the...

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Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we use micro data on a large number of European countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize our main findings, we find that less than half of the...

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