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Using Cross-Cultural Experiments to Understand the Dynamics of a Global Commons

Carpenter, Jeff; Seki, Erika - The Field Experiments Website - 2002

Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report on a field experiment conducted with workers from a...

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Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents

Sosis, Richard; Ruffle, Bradley - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

The in-group-out-group bias is among the most well documented and widely observed phenomenon in the social sciences. Despite its role in hiring decisions and job discrimination, negotiations, and conflict and competition between groups, economists have paid little attention to the...

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What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2006

education levels. In short, even in a market setting with large stakes and experienced customers, subtle psychological features …

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The Effect of Varying the Causes of Environmental Problems on Stated WTP Values: Evidence from a Field Study

Bulte, Erwin; Gerking, Shelby; List, John A.; Zeeuw, Aart de - The Field Experiments Website - 2004

Standard applications of utility theory assume that utility depends solely on outcomes and not on causes. This study uses a field experiment conducted in the Netherlands to determine if alternative causes of an environmental problem affect willingness to pay to ameliorate it. We find evidence...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

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Risk Pooling, Commitment and Information: An experimental test of two fundamental assumptions

Barr, Abigail - The Field Experiments Website - 2003

This paper presents rigorous and direct tests of two assumptions relating to limited commitment and asymmetric information that underpin current models of risk pooling. A specially designed economic experiment involving 678 subjects across 23 Zimbabwean villages is used to solve the problems of...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432546

Do causes of environmental problems affect Hicksian equivalent surplus? Evidence from the field

Bulte, Erwin; Gerking, Shelby; Zeeuw, Aart de; List, John - The Field Experiments Website

Measuring preferences via stated methods remains the only technique to obtain the total economic value of a non-marketed good or service. This study examines if alternative causes of an environmental problem affect individual statements of compensation demanded. Making use of a unique sample...

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Do People Invest in Local Public Goods with Long-Term Benefits? Experimental Evidence from a Shanty Town in Peru

Hoop, Thomas de; Kempen, Luuk van; Fort, Ricardo - The Field Experiments Website - 2009

This paper discusses voluntary contributions to health education in a shanty town in Peru, using a new experimental … health education meeting, which will only continue if the cumulative investment level exceeds a certain threshold value …. Individuals contributed a substantial amount of money, despite the long-term nature of the health benefits of health education …

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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Grip, Andries de; Sauermann, Jan - The Field Experiments Website - 2011

This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training....

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