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health and hygiene explicitly, and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We then provide an information intervention on … are well matched to reported adverse health behavior. The information intervention helps to correct harmful social norms …
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the causal effect of related information interventions on revealed climate protection activities, measured through … information about individual climate protection activities in Germany, injunctive social norms by provid-ing information about …-dence that information about both descriptive and injunctive social norms increases donations for climate protection. The …
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utility functions, in particular the literature on decision making under incomplete information. Our method derives parameters …
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In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare between January 1994 and March...
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We study the external validity of a standard laboratory measure of cheating. The results show that cheating in the lab significantly predicts classroom misbehavior in middle and high school students.
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We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test the external validity of a common laboratory measure of cheating. Subjects performed several coin tosses and earned money depending on the outcomes they reported. Because the coin tosses were not monitored, subjects faced a...
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We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test the external validity of a common laboratory measure of cheating. Subjects performed several coin tosses and earned money depending on the outcomes they reported. Because the coin tosses were not monitored, subjects faced a...
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There is by now ample evidence from laboratory experiments that individuals exhibit "prosocial" or "other-regarding" preferences. However, a key question is whether the importance of other-regarding preferences documented in the laboratory can be readily generalized to draw conclusions about the...
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