field experiment designed to mimic important aspects of competitive investment prior to the college market. We pay students … based on relative performance on a mathematics exam in order to test the incentive effects of AA, and track study efforts on … an online mathematics website. Consistent with theory, AA increases average human capital investment and exam performance …

In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …

addition to providing a check on the results of the field experiment, we use laboratory experiments to implement an important …

price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated …

In a field experiment, we study the revenue-generating properties of premium auctions. In a premium auction, the runner … that the relative performance of premium auctions compared to standard auction formats is context-specific. In the … experiment, we compare two types of premium auctions with the standard Vickrey auction selling high-quality, limited …

I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using field experiment data. I sell identical …

This paper uses data from a natural experiment to compare two institutions: a simple English auction and bilateral …

-scale natural experiment that by size, incentives, and variation belongs among the largest experiments ever conducted. To detect and … quantify learning we develop new measures of individual performance during the bidding process when prices of goods vary over …