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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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signaling ; field experiment ; IQ ; numeracy ; personality ; MPQ …
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intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …
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real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the … experiment, we survey potential participants for their organizational preferences. At the experiment, we randomly assign workers …
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supply using a real effort experiment. Two results stand out. First, no one theory seems to fit the pooled data. On average …
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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic environment complicate most analyses. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor...
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for this conjecture and we discuss the results of an experiment that confirms that profit sharing is most effective when …
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, we design an experiment based on a task that has been developed to distinguish between System 1 and System 2 thinking …
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The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while...
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We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly …
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