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Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments : evidence from a natural field experiment
Kassis, Mark; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Schreyer, Dominik; … - 2020
In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments - like R&D races - with interim feedback is difficult with company data, we examine decisions of highly...
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The impact of ambiguity prudence on insurance and prevention
Berger, Loïc - 2015
Most decisions concerning (self-)insurance and self-protection have to be taken in situations in which a) the effort exerted precedes the moment uncertainty realises, and b) the probabilities of future states of the world are not perfectly known. By integrating these two characteristics in a...
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Risk Attitudes, Sample Selection and Attrition in a Longitudinal Field Experiment
Harrison, Glenn W.; Lau, Morten I.; Yoo, Hong Il - 2019
Longitudinal experiments allow one to evaluate the temporal stability of latent preferences, but raise concerns about … stability in risk preferences using a remarkable data set that combines socio-demographic information from the Danish Civil … attrition changes inferences about risk preferences in an economically and statistically significant manner. Estimates of risk …
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Increasing the take-up of public health services : an experiment on nudges and digital tools in Uruguay
Cuesta, Ana; Delgado, Lucia; Gallegos, Sebastián; … - 2021
In this paper, we test whether promoting digital government tools increases the take-up of an important public health prevention service: cervical cancer screening. We implemented an at-scale field experiment in Uruguay, randomly encouraging women to make medical appointments with a digital...
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Do behavioral drivers matter for healthcare decision-making in times of Crisis? : a study of low-income women in El Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bernal, Pedro; Daga, Giuliana; Kossuth, Lajos; López … - 2023
Understanding health-seeking behaviors and their drivers is key for governments to manage health policies. There is a growing literature on the role of cognitive biases and heuristics in health and care-seeking behaviors, but little is known of how they might be influenced during a context of...
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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021
Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...
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Nudging the trendsetters : increasing second-dose HPV vaccination in Bogota, Colombia
Martínez, Déborah; Díaz, Lina; Maldonado Zambrano, … - 2023
. These findings underscore the importance of tailoring nudge strategies to the unique characteristics and preferences of the …
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Overconfidence and gun preferences : how behavioral biases affect your safety
Cafferata, Fernando G.; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2023
Overconfidence leads to risky behavior, including when people are around guns. Does overconfidence also shape attitudes about gun ownership and use? We evaluate this possibility by conducting nationally representative surveys in six countries in the Americas, including the United States. Results...
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Households' risk perceptions, overplacement, and financial literacy
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Fessler, Pirmin; Silgoner, Maria … - 2024
Household financial resilience is related to the availability of financial resources but also to the ability to anticipate and assess future situations and prepare for them accordingly. Overplacement describes the tendency of individuals to rate themselves better than others, i.e. they believe...
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Probability weighting as evolutionary second-best
Herold, Florian; Netzer, Nick - 2010
probability weighting functions. -- Probability Weighting ; Prospect Theory ; Evolution of Preferences …
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