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The role of social connections in charitable fundraising: Evidence from a natural field experiment

List, John A.; Price, Michael K. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 69 (2009) 2, pp. 160-169

The economics literature suggests that enhanced social connection can increase trust amongst agents, which can ultimately lead to more efficient economic outcomes, including increased provision of public goods. This study provides a test of whether social connectedness (proxied via agent...

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Multi-Attribute Choice Modeling of Australia’s Rivers and Wetlands: A Meta-Analysis of Ten Years of Research

Brouwer, Roy - Ecosystems Sciences Division, Commonwealth Scientific … - 2009

different attributes, measurement units and levels in choice experiments makes it hard to compare WTP values for environmental …

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The effect of police intelligence on group violence: Evidence from reassignments in Sweden

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - In: Journal of Public Economics 93 (2009) 3-4, pp. 403-411

This paper isolates the causal effect of policing on group violence, using unique panel data on self-reported crime by soccer and ice hockey hooligans. The problem of reverse causality from violence to policing is solved by two drastic reallocations of the Stockholm Sport Intelligence and...

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Should the Randomistas Rule?

Ravallion, Martin - In: The Economists' Voice 6 (2009) 2, pp. 6-6

Social experiments are not the only, or even the best, way of addressing the key policy questions faced in the fight …

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Defining environmental attributes as external costs in choice experiments: A discussion

Figuerola, Catalina M. Torres; Font, Antoni Riera - Centre de Recerca Econòmica (UIB ·"Sa Nostra") - 2009

After doing a CE literature review to examine the dominant trends around the definition of environmental attributes in terms of their identification as external benefits or costs, their description through qualitative or quantitative attribute level labels, their number of levels and their...

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Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future

Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A. - In: European Economic Review 53 (2009) 1, pp. 1-18

This study presents an overview of modern field experiments and their usage in economics. Our discussion focuses on … agricultural plots. The second, the large-scale social experiments conducted by government agencies in the mid-twentieth century …, moved the exploration from plots of land to groups of individuals. More recently, the nature and range of field experiments …

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Experiment timing and preferences for fairness

Dickinson, David L. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 38 (2009) 1, pp. 89-95

Classroom experiments examining fairness preferences [Andreoni, J., Miller, J., 2002. Giving according to GARP: an … issues: first, are classroom points a salient reward medium (comparable to cash in research experiments)? Secondly, does …-behaved utility functions, indicating that points experiments can be valid. Secondly, subjects are more likely to be "selfish" when …

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Barter Markets for Conjoint Analysis

Ding, Min; Park, Young-Hoon; Bradlow, Eric T. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 1003-1017

We propose a new alternative preference measurement method, barter conjoint, to contrast with traditional choice-based conjoint (CBC) approaches. Barter conjoint collects a substantially larger amount of data compared to CBC and allows for information diffusion among respondents. We conducted...

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Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

Marx, Matt; Strumsky, Deborah; Fleming, Lee - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 875-889

Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...

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Elicited Beliefs and Social Information in Modified Dictator Games: What Do Dictators Believe Other Dictators Do?

Iriberri, Nagore; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

We use subjects actions in modified dictator games to perform a within-subject classification of individuals into four different types of interdependent preferences: Selfish, Social Welfare maximizers, Inequity Averse and Competitive. We elicit beliefs about other subjects actions in the same...

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