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We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a … basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …
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We designed a natural-field experiment in the context of local public transportation to test whether rewards in the …
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experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle treatments to examine the effectiveness of alternative incentive … revenue gains are available on both margins. Our experiment, and others like it, illustrates the power of field experiments to …
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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artefactual field experiment conducted with 216 villagers from small, rural communities in northern Namibia. In line with previous …
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