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Comparing Students to Workers : The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2004

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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Incentives and the Design of Charitable Fundraisers: Lessons from a Field Experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...

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Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcomes; however, we still do not know which measures work best. With the help of a large sample of...

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Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America

Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

A common premise in both the theoretical and policy literatures on development is that people remain poor because they are too impatient to save and too risk averse to take the sort of chances needed to accumulate wealth. The empirical literature, however, suggests that this assumption is far...

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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

gift exchange should be organized if the principal's goal is to increase the performance of a reciprocal agent …. Consistent with the previous experimental literature, I find that principal-first, gifts do increase agent performance. Unlike …

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006

performance are significantly less cooperative than those who are paid hourly or are members of cooperatives. To examine whether … Switzerland and that entering messengers must work in performance pay firms in the U.S. We find that the erosion of cooperation … under performance pay is predominantly due to treatment, and that the treatment effect is relatively rapid, more akin to the …

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Do social preferences increase productivity? Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005

We provide a reason for the wider economics profession to take social preferences, a concern for the outcomes achieved by other reference agents, seriously. Although we show that student measures of social preference elicited in an experiment have little external validity when compared to...

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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005

Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report on a field experiment conducted with workers from a...

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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2010

Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...

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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should garner more money than winner-pay auctions. We conduct...

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