This paper describes a randomized field experiment testing the impact of a savings competition on the behavior of homeless individuals staying at a transitional shelter. When monetary prizes were offered for achieving the highest saving rates within a particular month, average savings increased...

This paper experimentally investigates the robustness of the “two-tiered labor market” of Brown, Falk and Fehr (2004). In the experiments, relatively efficient private relational contracts emerge between firms and specific workers, as firms make worker-specific wage effors. Public contracts...

We conducted a multi-country experiment on whether a reminder of the Islamic prohibition on interest induces lenders to choose Profit-Loss Sharing arrangements (PLS) as an alternative. We find that 1) Muslims are more likely to choose PLS than non-Muslims; 2) they do so when interest rates are...

Does an individual's exposure to aspects of globalization impact their willingness to support income transfers to the poor? We hypothesize that the 'glitter' of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries creates perceptions among relatively better-off citizens that the poor are less...

In this paper, we describe the implementation of an information-sharing platform, got-toilet-paper.com. We create this web page in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help the Pittsburgh, PA community share information about congestion and product shortages in supermarkets. We show that the...