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Seeking risk or answering smart? : framing in elementary schools
Wagner, Valentin - 2016
This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment in elementary schools, 1.377 pupils are randomly assigned to one of three conditions in a multiple-choice test: (i) gain frame (Control), (ii) loss frame (Loss) and (iii) gain...
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Field experiments in a course on behavioral economics : nudging students around campus
Castilla, Carolina - In: The journal of economic education 45 (2014) 3, pp. 211-224
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Opting-in to prosocial incentives
Schwartz, Daniel; Keenan, Elizabeth A.; Imas, Alex; … - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 163 (2021), pp. 132-141
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Ethics of Field Experiments
Phillips, Trisha - 2021
Political scientists are increasingly conducting field experiments that raise ethical issues that standard review criteria and processes are ill equipped to address. Field experiments can answer important questions, but they can also present various harms to individuals, communities, and...
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The Weakest Link - a Field Experiment in Rational Decision Making
Haan, Marco A.; Los, Bart; Riyanto, Yohanes E.; van … - 2002
We analyze the BBC TV game show 'The Weakest Link', using data from 77 episodes, covering 13,380 questions. We focus on the banking decision, where a contestant chooses to secure an amount of money for the eventual winner, or to risk it on a general knowledge question. In the latter case, should...
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Incentives versus Sorting in Tournaments : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, J. H.; … - 2021
A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from experiments in laboratories and non-experimental studies exploiting sports or firm data. Selection of competitors across tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies,...
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Understanding the motivations for socially responsible investing : a field experiment
Brodback, Daniel; Heimann, Marco; Guenster, Nadja Katharina - 2021
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Complementarity of signals in early-stage equity investment decisions : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Bapna, Sofia - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 65 (2019) 2, pp. 933-952
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Time delay and investment decisions : evidence from an experiment in Tanzania
Nikolov, Plamen - 2019
study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk … outset, in the Decision Stage (Stage 1), each subject was asked to make an investment plan by splitting a monetary investment … amount between a risky asset and a safe asset. Subjects were informed that the investment plans they made in the Decision …
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A field experiment on attracting crowdfunders
Hornuf, Lars; Siemroth, Christoph - In: Economics letters 222 (2023), pp. 1-5
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