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participants hold. -- experiments ; information ; matching …We analyze two well-known matching mechanisms—the Gale-Shapley, and the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) mechanisms—in the … experimental lab in three different informational settings, and study the role of information in individual decision making. Our …
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information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … collected data from students prior to the information intervention and followed them for four consecutive years. We find … evidence that an information intervention increases students' application as well as their enrollment rates, in particular for …
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experimental definition of rationality", this new use consists in letting the experiment itself speak of the rationality or … information. We end by reviewing this forgotten experimental avenue not simply historically, but with a view to recommending it …
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We evaluate the quality of beliefs elicited from online respondents, comparing several characteristics of two widely used elicitation mechanisms (the Binarized Scoring Rule - BSR - and a stochastic variation of the Becker-deGroot-Marshak mechanism -BDM) against a flat fee baseline for a variety...
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). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks … aversion, decoy effect, anchoring bias, endowment effect, and identifiable-victim bias. In our experiment, DMfO is DMfO …
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This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment …
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We use rich microeconomic data on performance and choices of students at college entry to study the interaction between the revelation of college preferences through exams and the selection of allocation mechanisms. We propose a method in which preferences and expectations of students are...
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