for instrumental purposes. We then present an experiment that tests these ideas in the laboratory and finds support for …

Coordination is central to social interactions. Theory and conventional lab experiments suggest that cheap talk … agricultural cooperatives seek to jointly sell their output. Combining artefactual/lab-in-the-field experiments (LFEs), natural … field experiments (RCTs), surveys, and cooperative records, we find that (1) revealing farmers' intended sales (i.e., cheap …

and experiments--participants frequently play seemingly dominated, significantly costly, strategies that avoid small … chances of good outcomes. We show theoretically why, with expectations-based loss aversion, this behavior may be partly … reference-dependent preferences, with a degree and distribution of loss aversion that explain common levels of risk aversion …

experiments provide general support for the strategic rationale behind the role of commitment and, more specifically, for the …

-slum wards. Cross-cutting experiments suggest that the public nature of report cards, not access to information on public …

the theory in a lab experiment where two subjects negotiate how to share a resource; in case of conflict, the subjects …

decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions …

Although backward induction is a cornerstone of game theory, most laboratory experiments have found that agents are not …