We employ a large-scale field experiment to investigate the impact of patients' socio-economic status on access to care. We request an appointment at more than 1,200 physicians in Austria varying the educational level of the patient. Our results show that overall patients with a university...

This paper investigates the impact of monitoring institutions on market outcomes in health care. Health care markets are characterized by asymmetric information. Physicians have an information advantage over patients with respect to the appropriate treatment for the patient and may exploit this...

Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information concerning the needed and/or provided quality between experts and consumers. The functioning of the market heavily relies on trust on the side of the consumer as well as trustworthiness on the side of the expert. However, a great...

Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information concerning the needed and/or provided quality between experts and consumers. The functioning of the market heavily relies on trust on the side of the consumer as well as trustworthiness on the side of the expert. However, a great...

In this paper, we experimentally investigate the effect of reputation and feedback on market outcomes in healthcare markets. Healthcare markets are characterized by asymmetric information between physicians and patients. Physicians have an information advantage over patients with respect to the...

Credence goods markets heavily rely on trust on the side of the consumer as well as trustworthiness on the side of the expert. In this paper, we study two determinants of trust and trustworthiness in experimental credence goods markets, namely the effect of a health frame as well as the identity...

According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We...

While discrimination and its economic implications have been studied in many different societies and based on a multitude of attributes like ethnicity, religion, gender, or language, the development of such behavior in children is still poorly understood. Here we present experimental evidence...

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...