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from households living in poverty and extreme poverty wherein they participated in a baseline risk experiment that was the …
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This paper describes a randomized field experiment testing the impact of a savings competition on the behavior of …
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performance when facing risk. In a randomized field experiment we modified the framing of grading instructions of multiple … scores. Our experiment confirms that framing matters for risky decisions in the context of testing. It reveals that under the …
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it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women … show differences in their willingness to speak in public. The experiment involved more than 500 undergraduate students who …
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Calling to thank donors is a key fundraising strategy in the non-profit sector. Yet the effectiveness of these calls remains untested. We report on field experiments with public television stations and a national non-profit in which new donors were randomized to receive a thank-you call or not....
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randomized online field experiments (RCTs). During the first experiment, we collected data from 4,188 users on Facebook and …. During the second experiment, we collected data from a representative sample of the population and observed them across three … waves. Results: The results from the first experiment support the hypotheses that the bystander program motivates people to …
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
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field experiment at two subsequent conferences in environmental economics, with which we examine the conference participants …
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Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825397
device in the form of a moneybox with a regular savings plan. In our randomized field experiment, we also provide …
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