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Belief elicitation : limiting truth telling with information on incentives

Danz, David; Vesterlund, Lise; Wilson, Alistair J. - 2020

Belief elicitation is central to inference on economic decision making. The recently introduced Binarized Scoring Rule (BSR) is heralded for its robustness to individuals holding risk averse preferences and for its superior performance when eliciting beliefs. Consequently, the BSR has become the...

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Analysing tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands : using structural models and natural experiments

Boer, Henk-Wim de; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2020

We combine the strengths of structural models and natural experiments in the analysis of tax-benefit reforms in the …

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Personalized fundraising : a field experiment on threshold matching of donations

Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2020 - Revised February 2020

We study a form of threshold matching where donations above a certain threshold are topped up with a fixed amount. We show theoretically that threshold matching can induce crowding in if appropriately personalized. In a field experiment, we explore how thresholds should be chosen depending on...

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Working too much for too little : stochastic rewards cause work addiction

Corgnet, Brice; Gächter, Simon; Hernán González, Roberto - 2020

People are generally assumed to shy away from activities generating stochastic rewards, thus requiring extra compensation for handling any additional risk. In contrast with this view, neuroscience research with animals has shown that stochastic rewards may act as a powerful motivator. Applying...

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Randomization and social policy evaluation revisited

Heckman, James J. - 2020 - This draft, December 12, 2019

This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary of the history of randomization in economics. I identify two waves of enthusiasm for the method...

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POSA : policy implementation sensitivity analysis

Bauermann, Tom; Roos, Michael W. M.; Schaff, Frederik - 2020

. The following research paper addresses these problems. We have developed a procedure for policy experiments in ACE which … helps to conceptualise and conduct policy experiments in macroeconomic ABM efficiently. The procedure makes policy …

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Social identity, behavior, and personality: evidence from India

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is one such significant social identity where continued discriminatory practices towards the lower castes have resulted in poor outcomes for them. While there is...

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What can we learn from experimenting with survey methods?

De Weerdt, Joachim; Gibson, John K.; Beegle, Kathleen - In: Annual review of resource economics 12 (2020), pp. 431-447

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Information illusion : placebic information and stock price estimates

Oehler, Andreas; Horn, Matthias; Wendt, Stefan - 2020

information asymmetrically influences expectations of participants in experiments who show different levels of overconfidence. …

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Geographical concentration and editorial favoritism within the field of laboratory experimental economics

Cloos, Janis; Greiff, Matthias; Rusch, Hannes - 2020 - This version: December 12, 2019

experiments for data generation and were published in the American Economic Review, Experimental Economics or the Journal of the … for scientific quality indicate that experiments conducted in Europe are of higher quality than experiments conducted in … North America: European experiments rely on a larger total number of participants as well as participants per treatment, and …

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