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We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk … subjects more patient, less present-biased, and slightly more risk-averse. Our finding that the intervention changes economic … economic preferences. In our study, the latter are also related in a meaningful way to students' field behavior. …
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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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' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
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study with 432 students we find that student behavior is not driven by rankings. …
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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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Reciprocation of monetary gifts is well-understood in economics. In contrast, there is little research on reciprocal behavior following immaterial gifts like compliments. We close this gap and investigate how employees reciprocate after receiving immaterial and material gifts. We purchase (1)...
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Recent studies find ample evidence that monetary and immaterial gifts influence effort in the workplace. We investigate the impacts of monetary gift exchange and of expressions of respect on salespersons' reciprocity when purchasing doner durum, a common lunch snack. Prior to the food’s...
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Experiments can complement other methods in identifying causal relationships and in measuring behavioral deviations from theoretical predictions. While the experimental method has long been central in many scientific disciplines, it was almost nonexistent in finance until the 1980s. To survey...
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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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