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Can Taste and Nudging Impact Healthy Meal Consumption? Evidence from a Lunch Restaurant Field Experiment
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - 2012
choices may be affected by "nudging". We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption … sales of the healthy labelled meal, and its market share, is greatly impacted by its taste. Nudging, as in order of display … healthier food choices, such as information, nudging and food tax reforms. …
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The implications of water and electricity supply for the time allocation of women in rural Ghana
Costa, Joana; Hailu, Degol; Silva, Elydia; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
This paper investigates the time allocation of women in Ghana as a trade-off between domestic chores and market-oriented activities when households are provided with water and electricity infrastructure. Using the Ghana Living Standards Survey, Round Four, we find that the time spent on...
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Understanding the Nature of Cooperation Variability
Fosgaard, Toke; Hansen, Lars Gårn; Wengström, Erik - 2013
We investigate framing effects in a large-scale public good experiment. We measure indicators of explanations previously proposed in the literature, which when combined with the large sample, enable us to estimate a structural model of framing effects. The model captures potential causal effects...
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Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students
Schulz, Jonathan; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; Thöni, … - 2019
This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited measures for risk, time, social preferences, confidence,...
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Optimal targeting in fundraising: A machine-learning approach
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021
Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed...
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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Hidden persuaders: Do small gifts lubricate business negotiations?
Maréchal, Michel André; Thöni, Christian - 2016
Gift-giving customs are ubiquitous in social, political, and business life. Legal regulation and industry guidelines for gifts are often based on the assumption that large gifts have the potential to influence behavior and create conflicts of interest, but small gifts do not. However, scientific...
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How do nascent social entrepreneurs respond to rewards? A field experiment on motivations in a grant competition
Ganguli, Ina; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Le Coq, Chloé - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to identify the causal effects of extrinsic incentive cues on the sorting and performance of nascent social entrepreneurs. The experiment, carried out with one of the United Kingdom's largest support agencies for social entrepreneurs, encouraged 431 nascent social...
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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020
We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...
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What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital?
Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian; … - 2020
We validate survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420687