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People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
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This chapter surveys literature on experimental law and economics. Long the domain of legally minded psychologists and criminologists, experimental methods are gaining significant popularity among economists interested in exploring positive and normative aspects of law. Because this literature...
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Experimentally observed deviations of behavior from game theoretic predictions suggest that fairness does influence … decision making. Fairness in the sense of equality has become an essential element of economic models aiming at explaining … only fairness norm to be taken into account. More equity norms than equality exist, including inequality of payoffs. Since …
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Attitudes towards fairness and redistribution differ along socio-economic lines, resulting in political conflict. To …
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report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further … underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
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The purpose of the study is to collect information that can be used to design a policy to induce the poor to invest in human capital. We use laboratory experimental methodology to measure the preferences and choices of the target population of a proposed government policy. We recruited 256...
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when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked while another prosocial task is not: (i) a ranking influences …
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We conducted a field experiment in a typical Chinese prison to examine the in-group bias of groups with a stigmatized identity. Inmates were given the opportunity to work for a charity. We found evidence of both pro-sociality and in-group favoritism among inmates. In particular, inmates...
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In three large-scale field experiments with over 32,000 individuals, we investigate whether public transport uptake can be in uenced by behavioral interventions and by economic incentives. Despite their effectiveness in other domains, we find a tightly estimated zero for social norms and...
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