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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
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proximity has a positive spillover effect on social capital towards other migrants. This implies that, while the refugee crisis …
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Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming an increasingly important destination for international migration. The region hosts … immigrants in Sub-Saharan African countries that uses a causal framework. Using a survey experiment in Uganda and Senegal, we …
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the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …
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We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the host population in Northern Lebanon by administering a novel survey experiment in which we manipulate the salience of … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the …
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towards migrants, even though the treatment increases knowledge of pension systems and demographic trends for all participants …
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towards migrants, even though the treatment increases knowledge of pension systems and demographic trends for all participants. …
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preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments …
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