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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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Social comparison in the workplace: Evidence from a field experiment

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....

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Fair wages and effort provision: Combining evidence from the lab and the field

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz - 2013

The presence of workers who reciprocate higher wages with greater effort can have important consequences for labor markets. Knowledge about the determinants of reciprocal effort choices is, however, incomplete. We investigate the role of fairness perceptions and social preferences in workers'...

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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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