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field experiment, ahead of the 2015 UK General Election, whereby postcards were sent to 7,679 unregistered students living …, were not effective in raising registration. In a separate experiment, the authors also showed that the differences in these …
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a natural field experiment conducted before the 2015 UK General Election, we varied messages on a postcard sent by …
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We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common …
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Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly examines decentralized incentive systems where all group members can reward and/or punish one another. Many self-organizing groups and societies, however, concentrate the power...
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giftexchange game laboratory experiment where an employer is matched with two symmetric employees. We compare effort choices made …
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report a laboratory experiment based on these extended games. We find that behavior is similar in the two extended games …
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experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …
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experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. We find … also show, by conducting an experiment to measure social norms, that it is consistent with social norm compliance. We …
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encourage shirking. In contrast, ownpayoff effects suggest that both fines and bonuses discourage shirking. In an experiment we …
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experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. We find … also show, by conducting an experiment to measure social norms, that it is consistent with social norm compliance. We …
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