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Internal and External Validity of Experimental Risk and Time Preferences

Belzil, Christian - 2016

Using a unique field experiment from Canada, we estimate individual preference over risk and time and show considerable …

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The Lives of Others : Predicting Donations with Non-Choice Responses

Naecker, Jeffrey - 2015

There is significant variation in the percentage of adults registered as organ donors across the United States. Some of this variation may be due to characteristics of the sign-up process, in particular the form that is used when state residents renew or apply for their driver's licenses....

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Keep Up with the Winners : Experimental Evidence on Risk Taking, Asset Integration, and Peer Effects

Fafchamps, Marcel - 2015

experiment affects risk taking. Controlling for past winnings, participants receiving a low endowment in a round engage in more …

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Predictive Power in Behavioral Welfare Economics

Bouacida, Elias - 2020

When choices are inconsistent due to behavioral biases, there is a theoretical debate about whether the structure of a model is necessary for providing precise welfare guidance based on those choices. To address this question empirically, we use standard data sets from the lab and field to...

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Beliefs and Utility : Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Falk, Armin - 2016

Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utility-consequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...

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Signaling ideology through consumption

Schneider, Florian - 2022

Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, seemingly at odds with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: Consumers seek to signal that they have "desirable" ideological values to...

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Passive or active? : behavioral changes in different designs of search experiments

Kittaka, Yuta; Mikami, Ryo; Shimada, Natsumi - 2021

search experiment designs widely accepted in search studies. These designs can be categorized as passive, quasi-active, and …

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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a “social planner” or a “veil of ignorance …” experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …

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Savings and prize-linked savings accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - 2012

-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

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Signaling moral values through consumption

Schneider, Florian - 2020

Firms often discourage certain categories of individuals from buying their products, in contrast with typical assumptions about profit maximization. This paper provides a potential rationale for such firm behavior: consumers seek to signal that they have "good" moral values to themselves and...

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