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Knowing What Works - The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Universität <Heidelberg> / … - 1999

This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by independent researchers.

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We Need to Talk About Mechanical Turk : What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us About Publication Bias and P-Hacking in Online Experiments

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Heyes, Anthony - 2022

-online experiments. We explore correlates of increased credibility …

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Reputation as Insurance : How Reputation Moderates Public Backlash Following a Company's Decision to Profiteer

Arroyos-Calvera, Danae; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022

We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation, one that is unrelated to his or her business acumen, can impact economic action fairness appraisals. We provide experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally...

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The Preference Survey Module : New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Kosfeld, Michael; Sharafi, Zahra - 2022

We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original...

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Parental Paternalism and Patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and …

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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online

Arechar, Antonio - 2017

Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online … methodological discussion of the similarities and differences between interactive experiments conducted in the laboratory and online … online. The most important challenge of online interactive experiments is participant dropout. We discuss measures for …

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Research Design Meets Market Design : Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017

Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were a century later. In this paper we examine the effects of these emissions on child development by...

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'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes : Subjective Versus Revealed Preferences

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, preference heterogeneity can be inferred from the observation of individual choices (revealed...

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Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced Versus Decision Utility

Akay, Alpaslan - 2017

', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences …

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I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams

Gerhards, Leonie - 2017

We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likability we find that female teams lower their contribution to...

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