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. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job …
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This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
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Our results from a laboratory experiment offer new evidence for the detrimental effects that cheating behaviour in the …
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Evaluations of labour market programs and other related measures typically make use of observational data. This paper presents an outline for producing experimental data in the interest of testing a proposed measure targeted to un-employed immigrant workers. The idea is to offer them placement...
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US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general … equivalent except for name and age (as indicated by date of high school graduation). In all three experiments, hypothetical …
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Privacy law relies on the argument that consent does not entail any relevant impediments for the liberty of the consenting individual. Challenging this argument, we experimentally investigate whether consent to the publication of personal information in cyberspace entails self-coercion on a...
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and conducted a laboratory experiment to test this proposition. In the field experiment, taxpayers with a history of being … compliant are more likely to make a promise. Similarly, the laboratory experiment indicates that individuals with higher tax …. The field experiment indicates that commitment can improve payment behavior. This effect, however, is strongly dependent …
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three experiments (N = 1,993): in a preliminary experiment, we vary the payoffs over a large range. In our first main … experiment (Study 1), we present a novel design that varies payoffs orthogonally in a within-subjects design. Our second main … experiment, Study 2, investigates the orthogonal variation of payoffs in a between-subjects design. In a complementary analysis …
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experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We …
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ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … study, we perform a name categorization experiment in the United States that yields 56 names associated with six ethnicity …
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