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Differences in How and Why Social Comparison and Real-Time Feedback Impact Resource Use : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Andor, Mark Andreas; Götte, Lorenz; Price, Michael Keith; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
behavioral change. In a field experiment with around 1,000 participants, we directly observe the interventions' effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436976
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The Deadweight Loss of Social Recognition
Butera, Luigi - 2019
deploy in a field experiment on promoting attendance to the YMCA of the Triangle Area. We find that social recognition … increases YMCA attendance by 17-23% over a one-month period in our experiment, and our estimated structural models predict that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479589
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Insurance Contracts when Individuals “Greatly Value” Certainty : Results from a Field Experiment in Burkina Faso
Serfilippi, Elena - 2018
experiment. Given that the potential impacts of insurance for small scale farmers are high, and yet demand for conventionally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480679
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Paying Your Fair Share : Perceived Fairness and Tax Compliance
Nathan, Brad C.; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Zentner, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
experiment in the context of property taxes in the United States. We induced exogenous shocks to households' perceptions about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576617
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The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans
Carney, Kevin; Kremer, Michael; Lin, Xinyue; Rao, Gautam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
as collateral. Using a field experiment in Kenya, we show that borrowers instead strongly prefer loans collateralized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210101
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Willingness to Accept, Willingness to Pay, and Loss Aversion
Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use four incentivized representative surveys to study the endowment effect for lotteries in 4,000 U.S. adults. We replicate the standard finding of an endowment effect--the divergence between Willingness to Accept (WTA) and Willingness to Pay (WTP), but document three new findings. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537730
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How Do Employers Use Compensation History? : Evidence From a Field Experiment
Barach, Moshe A. - 2020
We report the results of a field experiment in which treated employers could not observe the compensation history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479151
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Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Button, Patrick - 2019
We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479798
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Does Knowing Your FICO Score Change Financial Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Student Loan Borrowers
Homonoff, Tatiana - 2019
borrowers with a personalized measure of their creditworthiness. In a field experiment with over 400,000 student loan borrowers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479996
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Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
Bulte, Erwin - 2019
experiment in peri-urban Uganda, and compare output levels across 1000 workers over isomorphic tasks and incentives, framed as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480231