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The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort : evidence from a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment
Kim, Min-taec; Slonim, Robert - 2012
We examine the gift exchange hypothesis on both the quantity and quality of output using a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers were paid either a high or low wage. We find that although...
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Waiting to choose
Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A.; Mironova, Vera - 2016
We study the role of heuristic versus deliberative processing in intertemporal choice. Using studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and an online labor market, we show that waiting periods - designed to prompt deliberation by temporally separating news about choice sets from choices...
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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016
We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means...
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A Theory of False Memory Preference : Evidence from a Field Experiment with Investors
Li, King King - 2020
We propose a theory of memory recall bias that is different from Bénabou and Tirole (2002). In our framework, remembering a negative event can be painful and lowers current and future memory utility, while it helps the decision-maker to make better decisions in the future. The decision-maker...
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Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad
Buser, Thomas - 2016
We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979517
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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild
Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017
begin by examining how the methodology has been used to test economic models with populations of theoretical interest. Next … covariates to test theoretical predictions and explore behavioral mechanisms. We proceed to discuss how the methodology can be … utilized to compare behavior across cultures and contexts, and test for the external validity of results obtained in the lab …
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Free riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good...
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Free-riding in the lab and in the field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2011
To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We compare results within subjects. In the free-riding treatment,...
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Rankings and risk-taking in the finance industry
Kirchler, Michael; Lindner, Florian; Weitzel, Utz - 2016
Rankings are a pervasive feature of the finance industry. Although they have no direct monetary consequences, rankings provide utility for intrinsic (positive self-image) and extrinsic (status) reasons. We recruit a unique subject pool of 204 financial professionals and investigate how anonymous...
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Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage-rate changes : evidence from a field experiment
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Löffler, Max - 2016
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics literature suggests that people are loss averse and thus perceive losses differently than...
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