Search Results - subject:"Experimental economics"

Multi-country perspectives on best practices and barriers to preference elicitation lab-in-the-field experiments with farmers

Baaken, Marieke; Kuhfuss, Laure; Bougherara, Douadia; … - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 47 (2025) 2, pp. 723-746

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Redemption fees and gates in the lab

Kiss, Hubert János; Rosa García, Alfonso; Voellmy, Lukas - 2025

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Are elites meritocratic and efficiency-seeking? : evidence from MBA students

Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joy - 2025

Elites disproportionately influence policymaking, yet little is known about their fairness and efficiency preferences - key determinants of support for redistributive policies. We investigate these preferences using an incentivized lab experiment with a group of future elites - Ivy League MBA...

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Breaking stereotypes : how valuing workers' preferences improves task allocation and performance

Ecchia, Giulio; Montinari, Natalia; Orsini, Raimondello; … - 2025

Firm performance depends critically on the efficient allocation of tasks across employees. Yet, task assignment decisions are often shaped not only by productivity considerations but also by managerial biases and gender stereotypes-frequently resulting in women being disproportionately assigned...

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Do higher insurance premiums provoke larger reported losses? : an experimental study

Morrison, William G.; Ruffle, Bradley J. - In: The journal of risk & insurance 92 (2025) 1, pp. 203-226

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Farmers' attitudes toward economic experimentation

Englberger, Leon; Colen, Liesbeth; Rommel, Jens - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 5 (2025) 1, pp. 1-23

Economic experiments have gained popularity in Agricultural Economics. However, challenges in recruitment and acceptance of experimental methods among farmers persist. Surveying 406 Swedish farmers, we explore farmers' attitudes toward different types and features of economic experiments. Only a...

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"Blessed are the poor" : the Weberian spirit of capitalism under experimental scrutiny

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Santori, Paolo - 2025 - rev.

This paper experimentally examines Max Weber's thesis on the influence of religious narratives - particularly the Protestant Ethic - on attitudes toward wealth redistribution. Weber argued that the Protestant Reformation fostered the belief that economic success signals divine favour, thereby...

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Cheating on a budget

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Zhang, William B. - 2025

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Identity as self-image

Bénabou, Roland; Henkel, Luca - 2025

We review the economic literature on self-image, which conceptualizes identity as a set of beliefs about one's core traits, values, goals, and social ties. Self-image concerns lead individuals to process information and make choices in non-standard ways that help affirm and protect certain...

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The agentic perspective in experimental economics

Macías, Arturo - In: Games 16 (2025) 5, pp. 1-11

Mainstream experimental economics is characterized by its focus on theory testing and "treatment effects" on aggregate …, first, a literature review of agentic experimental economics is provided, and a stylized workflow is proposed to produce and …. Finally, the relations between agent-based and experimental economics are discussed after deep learning has "tamed" the curse …

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