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at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now" format, it is the buyer. Both formats are extensively used in online and … offline markets. Despite very different strategic implications for buyers and sellers, results from our experiment suggest no …
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, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together …
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We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation...
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SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing …
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randomized field experiment with detailed register data and a panel of repeated surveys. The tested coaching program, focused on … be important for program success. The experiment shows that evaluation designs which directly assess behavior can provide …
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We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect...
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offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment …
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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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We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law …
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experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
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