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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment

Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than … experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields and ages were invited to join a product development opportunity … significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no …

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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

these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to …

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Measuring Bias in Job Recommender Systems : Auditing the Algorithms

Zhang, Shuo; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We audit the job recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards by creating fictitious applicant profiles that differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their observed characteristics, with female jobs advertising...

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12 Best Practices for Leveraging Generative AI in Experimental Research

Chang, Samuel; Kennedy, Andrew; Leonard, Aaron; List, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We provide twelve best practices and discuss how each practice can help researchers accurately, credibly, and ethically use Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance experimental research. We split the twelve practices into four areas. First, in the pre-treatment stage, we discuss how GenAI can aid in...

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Macro-Level Institutions and Micro-Level Economic Behavior : A Meta-Meta Analysis of 1,126 Studies

Aimone, Jason A.; Ball, Sheryl; Dwibedi, Esha; Jackson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We combine societal-level institutional measures from 51 countries between 1996 and 2017 with individual decision-making outcome data from 1,126 laboratory experiments in six meta-analyses to evaluate the effects of within-country institutional change on pro-social and Nash behavior. We find...

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The Experimentalist Looks Within : Toward an Understanding of Within-Subject Experimental Designs

List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The traditional approach in experimental economics is to use a between-subject design: the analyst places each unit in treatment or control simultaneously and recovers treatment effects via differencing conditional expectations. Within-subject designs represent a significant departure from this...

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Reassessing Qualitative Self-Assessments and Experimental Validation

Chapman, Jonathan; Ortoleva, Pietro; Snowberg, Erik; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Qualitative self-assessments of economic preferences have recently gained popularity, often supported by experimental validation, a method that links them to choices in incentivized elicitations. We illustrate theoretically that experimental validation may fail to produce reliable new measures....

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Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation

Jack, B. Kelsey; McDermott, Kathryn; Sautmann, Anja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

experiment in South Africa shows that significant order effects exist which, if uncorrected, would lead to distorted conclusions …

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The Privacy Elasticity of Behavior : Conceptualization and Application

Dekel, Inbal; Cummings, Rachel; Heffetz, Ori; Ligett, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

estimating the privacy elasticity of public-good contributions in a lab experiment …

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Anti-social norms

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...

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