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Cappelen, Alexander W.; Charness, Gary; Ekström, Mathias; … - 2017

We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it generates a strong and significant improvement in...

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...

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Identity and economic incentives

Donkor, Kwabena; Götte, Lorenz; Müller, Maximilian; … - 2023

This paper examines how beliefs and preferences drive identity-conforming consumption or investments. We introduce a theory that explains how identity distorts individuals' beliefs about potential outcomes and imposes psychic costs on benefiting from identity-incongruent sources. We substantiate...

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Bad boys: How criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...

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The Evaluation of Community-Based Interventions: Group Randomization, Limits and Alternatives

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Baltussen, Rob; Sauerborn, Rainer - 2000

The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group-randomized studies do possess ideal properties in theory, but in practice, grouprandomization might not be a feasible alternative at all or group-randomized studies might be contaminated....

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Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production

Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...

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Aversion to Health Inequality - Pure, Income-Related and Income-Caused

Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023

income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …

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