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We report results from a Cournot triopoly experiment with different subject pools: German students, Malaysian students …, and Malaysian managers. While German students play Nash, we reject the hypothesis that both Malaysian students and … students. Finally, the affect of gender is opposite for German and Malaysian subjects. …
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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 academic performance, particularly for students who struggled at the baseline … in terms of lifestyle habits. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms: Students who were incentivized to …
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gender norms. In this study, we design an experiment to compare the effectiveness of targeting only adolescent girls with an …
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2 … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal …
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This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of worker's pro …
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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger … preferences, but are much more cooperative than students. Among messengers, we find that employees at firms that pay for …
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on a field experiment conducted with workers from a fishing community in Toyama Bay, Japan. Our participants are employed … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …
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another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and …
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Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2 … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268953