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Distance Friction and the Cost of Hunting in Tropical Forests

Sirén, Anders - 2012

economic field experiment with Amazonian hunters and with previous empirical data on hunting …

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Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering

Xiao, Erte - 2018

with the second-stage task. We refer to this as a “failsafe” mechanism. We design and implement a field experiment to test …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938119

Sign Me Up! A Model and Field Experiment on Volunteering

Xiao, Erte - 2018

with the second-stage task. We refer to this as a “failsafe” mechanism. We design and implement a field experiment to test …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938143

Risk-Taking, Trust, and Traumatization Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan – A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment

El-Bialy, Nora - 2017

An unprecedented number of refugees from Syria has sought refuge in both the Middle East as well as in Europe since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. Refugees do not only bring patterns of behavior they have acquired over their childhood and adolescence with them but also the –...

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Friendship Networks and Political Opinions : A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians

Algan, Yann - 2019

We study how friendship shapes students' political opinions in a natural experiment. We use the indicator whether two …

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Friendship Networks and Political Opinions : A Natural Experiment Among Future French Politicians

Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2021

We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences …

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People's Trust : The Design of a Survey-Based Experiment

Ermisch, John; Gambetta, Diego - 2021

In this paper we present the design of a two-stage experiment which aims to measure trusting and trustworthiness in a … "trust-game" experiment in eliciting information about clear and cogent notions of trusting and trustworthiness, and in the … the experiment a better representation of real-life trust decisions. We plan in a second stage to run the extended …

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Comparing Students to Workers : The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2021

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in social framing. Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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Proximity can induce diverse friendships : a large randomized classroom experiment

Rohrer, Julia M.; Keller, Tamás; Elwert, Felix - 2020

Can outside interventions foster socio-culturally diverse friendships? We executed a large field experiment that … similarity with respect to educational achievement, gender, and ethnicity. However, the probability of a manifest friendship … highlight that transgressing boundaries defined by ethnicity and gender remains an uphill battle. …

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Self-serving biases in beliefs about collective outcomes

Kogan, Shimon; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021

Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing—documented for beliefs...

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