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The Relationship between Behavioral and Attitudinal Trust: A Cross-cultural Study

Ahmed, Ali; Salas, Osvaldo - In: Review of Social Economy 67 (2009) 4, pp. 457-482

We study the relationship between trust in an experiment and trust measured by means of popular survey items in different countries. Students from Chile, Colombia, India, Mexico and Sweden participate in a public goods game experiment and answer a set of standard attitudinal survey questions...

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Social Preferences: Some Thoughts from the Field

List, John A. - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 563-583

This review steps back from the burgeoning economics literature on measuring social preferences and considers more carefully the empirical evidence from the lab and the field. I place the claims from the ardent supporters of the literature into three bins: one for claims that are supported by...

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The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 151-178

Randomized experiments have become a popular tool in development economics research and have been the subject of a … in theory and in practice. We argue that the main virtue of randomized experiments is that, owing to the close … evaluate. We discuss the concerns that have been raised regarding experiments and generally conclude that, although real, they …

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—Special Section Introduction

Roberts, John H.; Lilien, Gary L. - In: Marketing Science 28 (2009) 4, pp. 617-619

We introduce the work of the finalists in the 2007 ISMS Practice Prize Competition, representing the best examples of rigor plus relevance that our profession produces. The winner, describing a collaboration between National Academies Press and a team based at the University of Maryland,...

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Analysing the performance of supply chain designs

Kumar, A. Senthil; Jeyapaul, R.; Haq, A. Noorul - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 11 (2009) 1/2, pp. 72-95

. Design of Experiment (DOE) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) are respectively used for experiments planning and simulation …

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Political Decentralization and Policy Experimentation

Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (2009) 1, pp. 35-58

Since 1932, when Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that in a federal system states can serve as "laboratories" of democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in...

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An Approach for Addressing the Multiple Testing Problem in Social Policy Impact Evaluations.

Schochet, Peter Z. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

In social policy evaluations, the multiple testing problem occurs due to the many hypothesis tests typically conducted across multiple outcomes and subgroups, which can lead to spurious impact findings. This article discusses a framework that balances Types I and II errors for addressing this...

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Optimum designs for estimation of optimum point under cost constraint

Pal, Manisha; Mandal, Nripes - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 36 (2009) 9, pp. 999-1008

In this paper, we consider the estimation of the optimum factor combination in a response surface model. Assuming that the response function is quadratic concave and there is a linear cost constraint on the factor combination, we attempt to find the optimum design using the trace optimality...

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Pillars of Trust: An Experimental Study on Reputation and Its Effects

Boero, Riccardo; Bravo, Giangiacomo; Castellani, Marco; … - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 5, pp. 5-5

This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments on the relevance of reputation for trust and cooperation in …

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Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum

Greig, Fiona; Bohnet, Iris - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 70 (2009) 1-2, pp. 1-9

Women, and particularly women in all-female groups, appear to be especially adept at providing public goods in developing countries. We use a one-shot Public Goods game to explore the effect of sex and a group's sex composition on the voluntary provision of public goods in a Nairobi slum. Sex...

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