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We test the main predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing. To track habit formation, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing some households about a future...
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Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers … underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany … particularly pronounced among workers in low-wage firms. If workers had correct beliefs, at least 10% of jobs, concentrated in low …
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We study the effects of forward guidance with an approach that combines theory with experimental estimates of counterfactual expectation adjustments. Guided by the model, we conduct experiments with representative samples of the US population to study how households adjust their expectations in...
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We review methodological questions relevant for the design of information provision experiments. We first provide a … literature review of major areas in which information provision experiments are applied. We then outline key measurement … challenges and design recommendations that may be of help for practitioners planning to conduct an information experiment. We …
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misperceive the performance of their state’s education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …’ educational performance. Parliamentarians’ support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
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misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
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misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …' educational performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …
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performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens' political … performance. Parliamentarians' support for the transparency policy is opportunistic: Performance information increases (decreases … performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfareenhancing reforms. …
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the first round of the Public Goods Game. Regarding age differences, cooperative adults estimated the behavior of players … behavior than adults indicating ongoing development of theory of mind in adolescence. -- theory of mind ; social preferences … ; cooperative behavior ; public goods game …
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We analyze the interaction between the incentives for free-riding and information revelation among partners in a … dynamic setting. Partners contribute to the value of a common project, but have private information about the success of their … information which in turn affects the incentives to exert effort. Both free-riding and the lack of information revelation …
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