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Higher order risk preferences : experimental measures, determinants and related field behavior
Schneider, Sebastan O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020 - This version: March 1, 2020
Higher order risk preferences are well-known for their relation with precautionary saving or portfolio allocation. Theoretically, they are also connected with other important behavior, such as health-related or eco-friendly behavior, but these relations have never been investigated with field...
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Imperfect procedural knowledge : evidence from a field experiment to encourage water conservation
Tonke, Sebastian Soung-Un - 2020
Individuals often desire to achieve certain outcomes, but potentially lack the procedural knowledge on how to do so. This study provides causal evidence that imperfect procedural knowledge is a severe obstacle to efficient behavior, but can be overcome by providing low-cost information. I...
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New Ecological Paradigm meets behavioral economics : on the relationship between environmental values and economic preferences
Ziegler, Andreas - 2019 - Preliminary version
Many studies examine the effect of environmental values on environmental behavior. In such empirical analyses it is typically at least implicitly assumed that environmental values are independent of economic preferences from behavioral economics like risk and time preferences, trust, or...
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The double dividend of social information in charitable giving : evidence from a framed field experiment
Feine, Gregor; Groh, Elke D.; Loessl, Victor von; … - 2021
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Can group identity explain gender gap in recruitment process?
Asanov, Igor A.; Mavlikeeva, Maria - 2020
Despite evidence of the gender wage gap in favor of men, aggregate findings from correspondence studies show that women are more likely than men to be invited for a job interview (Gornall and Strebulaev, 2018). We hypothesize that the predominance of women among recruiters may explain this...
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Health begins at home? : an RCT study to test the effects of a housing provider's health interventions
Mouland, Jemma; Cheshire, Paul C.; Gibbons, Steve - 2016 - This version: August 24th 2016
Recent research has been increasingly showing that it is not the houses or the neighbourhoods in which people live that make them sick or poor: rather it is their personal characteristics. Still this does not mean that interventions aimed at occupants of social housing may not be effective in...
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State coercion and control aversion : an internet study in East and West Germany
Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2019 - This version: September 2019
Do politico-economic systems influence how control affects motivation? We hypothesize that control aversion, meaning crowding-out of intrinsic motivation due to enforcement, has evolved less under the coercive regime of East Germany than under the liberal regime of West Germany. We test this...
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Experiments in transport related choices : the influence of risk and uncertainty in determining commuters' behaviour with respect to parking alternatives
Bergantino, Angela Stefania; De Carlo, Angela; Morone, … - 2013
The aim of this research is to analyse the trade-off between parking space availability and cost, in terms of time savings (considering time in terms of foregone earnings). This information is pivotal when designing parking policies in terms of fares, investments and regulation. A relevant body...
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Volunteering at the workplace under incomplete information : team size does not matter
Hillenbrand, Adrian; Werner, Tobias; Winter, Fabian - 2020
Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism at the workplace and emerges naturally in open-source software development, the generation of online knowledge platforms, and to some extent in "agile" work environments. Using a field experiment with 8 treatments and close to 2,800 workers on an...
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Motivating low-achievers : relative performance feedback in primary schools
Hermes, Henning; Huschens, Martin; Rothlauf, Franz; … - 2020
Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and performance in the workplace and … performance improvements. With a sample of 400 children, we conduct a class-wise randomized-controlled trial using an e … motivation, effort, and performance in math for low-achieving children, without hurting high-achieving children. Among low …
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