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Incentives to vaccinate
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2024
Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi-nation of administrative and survey data. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074579
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Incentives to vaccinate
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2024
Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combination of administrative and survey data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015075054
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Socially optimal mistakes? : debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior
Abel, Martin; Byker, Tanya; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2020
The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258020
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The relationship between cognitive ability and risk preferences in a developing nation : findings from the field
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187886
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The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation : Findings from the Field
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083710
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Institutional Quarantine and Economic Preferences : Experimental Evidence from China
Zhang, Yanan; Li, Jianbiao; Niu, Xiaofei - 2023
Quarantine is a public health measure that has been used for centuries to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; however, the social cost of such measures is poorly understood. Based on a quarantine event, we conduct an online lab-in-the-field experiment in China to examine the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358213
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Institutional Quarantine and Economic Preferences : Experimental Evidence from China
Zhang, Yanan; Li, Jianbiao; Niu, Xiaofei - 2023
Quarantine is a public health measure that has been used for centuries to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; however, the social cost of such measures is poorly understood. Based on a quarantine event, we conduct an online lab-in-the-field experiment in China to examine the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259859
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Institutional Quarantine and Economic Preferences : Experimental Evidence from China
Zhang, Yanan; Li, Jianbiao; Niu, Xiaofei - 2023
Quarantine is a public health measure that has been used for centuries to prevent the spread of infectious diseases; however, the social cost of such measures is poorly understood. Based on a quarantine event, we conduct an online lab-in-the-field experiment in China to examine the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259860
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Heterogeneous preferences and investments in energy saving measures
Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon; Teyssier, Sabrina - 2015
We investigate whether risk, time, environmental, and social preferences affect single family homeowners' investments in energy efficient renovations and energy quality of their house using established experimental measures and questionnaires. We find that homeowners who report to be more risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298887
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Lab in the field : measuring preferences in the wild
Genîzî, Ûrî; Imas, Alex - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489364