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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews

Marinescu, Ioana - 2018

investigation with a randomized controlled experiment on MTurk. We find that when participants' decision to review their employer is …

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Conducting Interactive Experiments Online

Arechar, Antonio - 2017

. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … reducing dropout and show that, for our case study, dropouts are exogenous to the experiment. We conclude that data quality for …

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To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We examine whether shrouding or partitioning of a surcharge raises demand in online shopping. In a field experiment …

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Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies

Abbiati, Giovanni; Azzolini, Davide; Balanskat, Anja; … - 2023

We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement design, involving 7,391 lower secondary teachers across 11 European countries. Short-run impact...

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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes : The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

Cawley, John H. - 2013

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...

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Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds

Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - 2021

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...

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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Jolivet, Grégory - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...

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Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation

Isler, Ozan; Gächter, Simon - 2022

tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects …

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Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences : An Experimental Study

Dickinson, David L. - 2018

problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and …

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