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Preisregulierung zum Schutz der Verbraucher: Wirkungen auf Werbung und Wohlfahrt

Steinrücken, Torsten; Jaenichen, Sebastian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 3, pp. 188-201

and has announced plans to intensify such regulation in the near future. Using a simple model we examine the welfare … increases welfare only on a small scale. Due to the fact that a price regulation limits the free choice of both marketing … the market. Our model shows that price regulation may fail to enhance welfare if the enterprise advertises its products …

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Preferences for tree fruit market attributes among smallholder farmers in Eastern Rwanda

Ihli, Hanna; Seegers, Ronja; Winter, Etti; Chiputwa, Brian - In: Agricultural Economics 53 (2021) 1, pp. 5-21

, and time preferences obtained through behavioral experiments, combined with a discrete choice experiment to understand …

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Randomized control trials in an imperfect world

Siddique, Zahra - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Randomized control trials (RCTs) have become increasingly important as an evidence-based method to evaluate interventions such as government programs and policy initiatives. Frequently, however, RCTs are characterized by "imperfect compliance," in that not all the subjects who are randomly...

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The employability of ex-offenders: A field experiment in the Swedish labor market

Ahmed, Ali M.; Lång, Elisabeth - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 6 (2017) 6, pp. 1-23

This paper presents the findings of a field experiment on hiring discrimination against ex-offenders in the Swedish …

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Relative pay, effort, and labor supply

Bracha, Anat - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Recent studies show that even irrelevant relative pay information—earnings compared to the past or to others—significantly affects workers’ willingness to work (labor supply) and effort. This effect stems mainly from those whose pay compares unfavorably; accordingly, earning less compared...

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Games and fieldwork in agriculture: A systematic review of the 21st century in economics and social science

Hernandez-Aguilera, J. Nicolas; Mauerman, Max; Herrera, … - In: Games 11 (2020) 4, pp. 1-21

Games are particularly relevant for field research in agriculture, where alternative experimental designs can be costly and unfeasible. Games are also popular for non-experimental purposes such as recreating learning experiences and facilitating dialogue with local communities. After a...

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Risk, ambiguity and willingness to participate in crop insurance programs: Evidence from a field experiment

Ali, Williams; Abdulai, Awudu; Goetz, Renan; Owusu, Victor - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 65 (2021) 3, pp. 679-703

This paper analyses smallholder farmers’ willingness to participate in crop insurance programs, using recent data from cocoa farmers in Ghana. Given the significance of output uncertainty and imperfect capital and insurance markets, we develop a theoretical framework to analyse how risk and...

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Integrating mobile phone technologies into labor-market intermediation: A multi-treatment experimental design

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 11, pp. 1-27

. We implement a social experiment with multiple treatments that allows us to investigate both the role of information …

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The impact of military work experience on later hiring chances in the civilian labour market: Evidence from a field experiment

Baert, Stijn; Balcaen, Pieter - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-37, pp. 1-17

jobs on the subsequent chances of being hired in the civilian labour market. It does so through a field experiment in the …

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Nudging und soziales Engagement: wie kann Nudging dazu beitragen, die Spendenbereitschaft zu erhöhen?

Adena, Maja - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 87 (2018) 2, pp. 139-152

Nudging hat das Potential, soziales Engagement zu erhöhen. In diesem Beitrag wird ausgehend von einigen Feldexperimenten diskutiert, wie vorgegebene Standards, Anker, Erinnerungen und weitere Methoden des Nudgings die Entscheidung, Geld für wohltätige Zwecke zu spenden, verändern können. So...

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