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Limited insurance within the household: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya

Robinson, Jonathan - 2008

This paper presents results from a randomized field experiment to test for the importance of limited commitment (due to incomplete contract enforceability) in explaining intra-household risk sharing arrangements in Kenya. The experiment followed 142 daily income earners and their spouses for 8...

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Self-serving biases in beliefs about collective outcomes

Shimon Kogan, Shimon; Schneider, Florian H.; Weber, … - 2021

Beliefs about collective outcomes, such as economic growth or firm profitability, play an important role in many contexts. We study biases in the formation of such beliefs. Specifically, we explore whether over-optimism and self-serving biases in information processing-documented for beliefs...

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Silent networks: The role of inaccurate beliefs in reducing useful social interactions

Jain, Ronak; Khandelwal, Vatsal - 2024

Inaccurate beliefs about social norms can reduce useful social interactions and adversely affect an individual's ability to deal with negative shocks. We implement a randomized controlled trial with low-income workers in urban India who lack access to formal financial and healthcare support. We...

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Establishing cooperation between groups: Ingroup versus outgroup punishment

Stoff, Christian - 2006

We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma when members of one group are unable to target punishment towards individual defectors from the other group. We first show that indiscriminate outgroup punishment may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main...

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Social comparison in the workplace: Evidence from a field experiment

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance-independent hourly wage....

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Experimental evidence from intensified placement efforts among unemployed in Sweden

Hägglund, Pathric - 2009

This paper uses experimental data to study the effects of participation in intensified placement efforts on subsequent job chances and earnings. Five small-scale experiments were performed in four different regions of Sweden in 2004 and the control groups were offered the PES regular services....

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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the …

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Are homosexuals discriminated against in the hiring process

Ahmed, Ali; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2011

This paper presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were sent to about 4,000 employers in 10 different occupations in Sweden. Gender and sexual orientation were randomly assigned to applications....

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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012

Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...

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On altruism and remittances

Antoniades, Alexis; Seshan, Ganesh; Weber, Roberto; … - 2013

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from … use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is considered, we find that only migrants' income robustly explains … remittances. Altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and …

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