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The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy

Kosfeld, Michael - 2019

I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in …

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Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Abebe, Girum; Fafchamps, Marcel; Koelle, Michael; … - 2019

results demonstrate the potential for matching algorithms to improve the design of field experiments. …

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Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population

Belot, Michèle; James, Jonathan; Spiteri, Jonathan - 2019

This paper tests an intervention aimed at facilitating (cognitively) the adoption of healthy dietary habits. We provide easy-to-understand information about the risks of developing diabetes or heart diseases and give easy-to-follow dietary recommendations to minimize these risks. We implement...

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Norms in the lab: Inexperienced versus experienced participants

Schmidt, Robert J.; Schwieren, Christiane; Sproten, Alec N. - 2019

participants in economic laboratory experiments. We find substantial differences between the two groups, both regarding injunctive … and descriptive social norms in the context of participation in lab experiments. By contrast, social norm perception for … lab experiments are inflated and indicates a distinction between revealed social preferences as measured commonly and the …

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Legislative bargaining with joint production: An experimental study

Merkel, Anna; Vanberg, Christoph - 2019

We conduct 3-person bargaining experiments in which the surplus being divided is produced by completing a prior task … experiments in which an exogenous surplus is divided, few subjects attempt to build minimum winning coalitions when the surplus is …

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Negotiation under the curse of knowledge

Pierrot, Thibaud - 2019

An individual is affected by the curse of knowledge when he fails to appreciate the viewpoint of a lesser-informed agent. In contrast to a rational person, the cursed individual behaves as if part of his private information were common knowledge. This systematic cognitive bias alters many...

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The political economy of higher education finance: How information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the …

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Experiments on matching markets: A survey

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea - 2019

The paper surveys the experimental literature on matching markets. It covers house allocation, school choice, and two-sided matching markets such as college admissions. The main focus of the survey is on truth-telling and strategic manipulations by the agents, on the stability and efficiency of...

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina; … - 2019

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Belief updating: Does the 'good-news, bad-news' asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?

Barron, Kai - 2019

Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo formodeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Some recent research has questioned the use of Bayes' rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news'...

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