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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

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Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices

Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and...

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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima

Moreno, Martin; Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, Maximo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit...

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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters contained no gift, one third contained a small...

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Field Experiments in Economics: Palgrave Entry

List, John A.; Reiley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Field experiments occupy a middle ground between laboratory experiments and naturally occurring field data. The idea is to perform a controlled experiment that captures important characteristics of the real world. Relative to traditional empirical economics, field experiments provide an...

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People’s Trust: The Design of a Survey-based Experiment

Ermisch, John; Gambetta, Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

‘trust-game’ experiment in eliciting information about clear and cogent notions of trusting and trustworthiness, and in the … second part we present an alternative design, which we call the ‘framed binary trust game’. The basic design will be … the experiment a better representation of real-life trust decisions. We plan in a second stage to run the extended …

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