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A Methodology for Laboratory Experiments in Developing Countries : Examples from the Busara Center

Haushofer, Johannes; Collins, Marie; de Giusti, Giovanna; … - 2014

While Randomized Controlled Trials and lab-in-the-field experiments have become more common in development economics in …. In addition to we provide information on the development of the lab itself, including data on physical and technical …

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What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean S.; Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2009

Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...

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The Role of Emotions on Risk Aversion: A prospect theory experiment

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Cuilty, Emilio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study measures risk and loss aversion using Prospect Theory and the impact of emotions on those parameters. Our controlled experiment at two universities in Mexico City, using uncompensated students as research subjects, found results similar to those obtained by Tanaka et al. (2010). In...

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Risk, uncertainty and entrepreneurship : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a large "lab-in-the-field" experiment comparing...

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Risk, uncertainty and entrepreneurship : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade … of primary school. We focus on pupils' development of relevant skill sets for entrepreneurial activity, both cognitive …

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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021 - This version: 4 March 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study

Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...

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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study

Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

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How do nascent social entrepreneurs respond to rewards? : a field experiment on motivations in a grant competition

Ganguli, Ina; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Le Coq, Chloé - 2018

and performance of social enterprises and suggest that using extrinsic incentives to promote the development of successful …

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