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,300 scientists. Experiment I, with predominantly European and North-American scientists, shows that fewer scientists over …-report winning tosses when their professional identity is salient. The global Experiment II yields heterogeneous effects. We … replicate Experiment I's effect for North-American scientists, but find the opposite for Southern European and East …
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mechanism for effective deterrence is the swiftness of punishment. We carry out the first controlled economic experiment to … deterrence. In fact, institutions that either reveal detection and impose punishment immediately or maintain uncertainty about …
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paper examines whether a social norm nudge can induce such households to save more. We ran a large-scale field experiment at … precisely estimated. A complementary small-scale survey experiment suggests that people did notice the social norm nudge and …
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relations have never been investigated with field data. In a large-scale experiment with 658 adolescents, we relate experimental …
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another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this … Bracketing ; Field Experiment ; Laboratory Experiment …
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This paper studies the impact of "nudges" on taxpayers with varying tax compliance histories in Papua New Guinea. We present the results from two population-wide randomized controlled trials in a setting that is characterized by low compliance rates and a lack of effective enforcement. We test...
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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