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People Playing Games : The Human Face of Experimental Economics (Presidential Address)
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011
Experiments can be used not only to test theory but also to measure preferences and assess heterogeneity of behavior. I discuss the design of experimental measures of ahruism and trust, as well as their uses in assessing how behavior varies across individuals, and across partners that a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182188
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Subsidizing unit donations : matches, rebates, and discounts compared
Diederich, Johannes; Eckel, Catherine C.; Epperson, Raphael - 2020 - This version: October 7, 2020
evidence of dominance in our online experiment: The three subsidy types are equally effective overall. At a more disaggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385386
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Subsidizing quantity donations : matches, rebates, and discounts compared
Diederich, Johannes; Eckel, Catherine C.; Epperson, Raphael - 2019 - This version: November 22, 2018
We present online-experimental evidence that challenges the generalizability of established results on subsidizing giving by considering a "quantity donation" scheme. We define this scheme as one in which donors choose how many units of a charitable good to fund, rather than the amount of money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317373
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School Environment and Risk Preferences : Experimental Evidence
Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J.; Johnson, … - 2014
Using a field experiment eliciting the risk preferences of 490 9th and 11th grade students from a variety of school … considered by economists (gender, ethnicity, height, and parental education) we also evaluate cognitive (proxied by math literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180235
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Forecasting Risk Attitudes: An Experimental Study Using Actual and Forecast Gamble Choices
grossman, philip j.; Eckel, Catherine C. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2008
to guess which of the five gambles each of the other subjects chose, and is paid for correct guesses. The experiment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010545632
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Thar 'She' Blows? Gender, Competition, and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2016
Do women and men behave differently in financial asset markets? Our results from an asset market experiment using the … Smith, Suchaneck, and Williams (1988) framework show marked gender difference in producing speculative price bubbles. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013007486
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Men, Women and Risk Aversion : Experimental Evidence
Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J. - 2011
This paper reviews the results from experimental measures of risk aversion for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. In most studies, women are found to be more averse to risk than men. Studies with contextual frames show less consistent results
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180248
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Chivalry and Solidarity in Ultimatum Games
Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip J. - 2011
solidarity. Age, earnings, and race also significantly affect proposals and the rates of rejection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182174
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Forecasting Risk Attitudes : An Experimental Study Using Actual and Forecast Gamble Choices
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011
to guess which of the five gambles each of the other subjects chose, and is paid for correct guesses. The experiment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125097
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Solidarity among the poor
Oliveira, Angela C.M. de; Eckel, Catherine C.; Croson, … - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 144-148
We conduct a field experiment with low-income subjects in Dallas, Texas. We examine voluntary, informal risk sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906371