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dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
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Peoples' willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment …
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We present a natural field experiment designed to examine the extent to which priming can influence the behaviour of …
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We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 years on average, over about half a year, we provide causal evidence that teaching financial...
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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
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Rankings are a pervasive feature of the finance industry. Although they have no direct monetary consequences, rankings provide utility for intrinsic (positive self-image) and extrinsic (status) reasons. We recruit a unique subject pool of 204 financial professionals and investigate how anonymous...
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We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law …. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of …
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outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …
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-Huerta's randomized natural experiment. -- second-mover advantage ; competitive environments ; psychological pressure ; experiment …
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