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allowed. We test these hypotheses experimentally and examine whether the effect of group size is purely due to the number of …
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We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game...
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most frequently observed and discussed biases of financial investors. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether the …
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uncertainty. We designed a multi-period experiment in which each period consisted of two stages, an R&D phase and a pricing stage …. Participants in the experiment had almost no information about the underlying functions, parameters, and probabilities. Subjects …’ behavior in the fundamentally uncertain environment of our experiment may best be characterized as some kind of procedural …
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Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
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The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of family-finding, a child welfare practice approach that … from this experiment indicate a need for further research on family finding for specific permanency outcomes. …
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. However, units are very rarely randomly selected from a well-defined population of interest into an experiment; this results … calculated in the experiment can be a biased estimate of the population average treatment effect. This article explores the use … population of interest is not well represented by the experiment, and an example. …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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We conduct a field experiment to investigate employers’ trust in workers. A sample of real entrepreneurs and workers …-optimal hiring. We further devise two randomized treatments to test for the existence of expectation bias against specific worker … categories and estimate the elasticity of employers’ beliefs with respect to new information. We find that employers …
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This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a...
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