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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …

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Turbulent Flow Characteristics and Dynamics Response of a Vertical-Axis Spiral Rotor

Kang, Can; Yang, Xin; Wang, Yuli - In: Energies 6 (2013) 6, pp. 2741-2758

both simulation and experiment. Under normal and relative-motion flow conditions, and within the range of upstream air …

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Identifying causal mechanisms in experiments (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting

Huber, Martin - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2012

This paper demonstrates the identification of causal mechanisms in experiments with a binary treatment, (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting. I.e., we consider the average indirect effect of the treatment, which operates through an intermediate variable (or mediator) that is...

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Social and Moral Norms in the Laboratory

Charness, Gary; Schram, Arthur - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2012

Social norms involve observation by others and external sanctions for violations,while moral norms involve introspection and internal sanctions. We develop a simple model ofindividual preferences that incorporates moral and social norms. We then examine dictatorchoices, where we create a shared...

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The Control Premium: A Preference for Payoff Autonomy

Owens, David; Grossman, Zachary; Fackler, Ryan - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2012

We document a lower bound for thecontrol premium: agents' willingness to pay to control their own payoff. Participants choose between an asset that will pay only if they later answer a particular quiz question correctly and one that pays only if their partner answers a different question...

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The Origins of Risk Sharing: An Experimental Approach

Gazzillo, Steven; Sopher, Barry; Aktipis, Athena; Cronk, Lee - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2013

Controversy exists about the act of giving as altruistic instead of self-interested behavior. Each side of this argument interprets similar results from similar experiments in different ways. One side argues the results show that the appearance of altruistic behavior can be explained by...

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The appropriation of endogenously provided common-pool resources

Cherry, Todd L.; Cotten, Stephen J.; Jones, Luke R. - In: Resource and Energy Economics 35 (2013) 3, pp. 329-341

Because game theory suggests that the origin of a common-pool resource should not affect appropriation behavior, experimental studies of appropriation from common-pool resources generally presume resources are exogenously provided. However, behavioral economic research indicates that the origin...

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Exploitation Aversion: When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Dolifka, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking … drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's self image, is thought to be the key to whether incentives work or not …

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Make humans randomize

Bruttel, Lisa; Friehe, Tim - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2013

This paper presents results from an experiment studying a two-person 4x4 pure coordination game. We seek to identify a …

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A simple test for the ignorability of non-compliance in experiments

Huber, Martin - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 389-391

This paper proposes a simple method for testing whether non-compliance in experiments is ignorable, i.e., not jointly related to the treatment and the outcome. The approach consists of (i) regressing the outcome variable on a constant, the treatment, the assignment indicator, and the...

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