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Credence goods, such as car repairs or medical services, are characterized by severe informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers, leading to fraud in the form of provision of insufficient service (undertreatment), provision of unnecessary service (overtreatment) and charging too much...
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This paper presents a framed field experiment on ecological altruism in Mindoro, Philippines. Behavioural differences …
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. Then, we conduct a field experiment with nearly 150 3-5 year old children and their parents, measuring (1) whether child … of social preferences by providing mechanisms through which parents transmit preferences for generosity to their children … and parent generosity is correlated, (2) whether children are influenced by their parents when making sharing decisions …
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children ages 3 to 6. Given the context of COVID-19, the original design was adapted as a hybrid model, alternating in … positive effects on children's prosocial behavior, self-awareness, and cognitive learning. The intervention also had an impact … the children's caregivers compared with those in the control group. Treated caregivers had better stimulation practices …
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-group favouritism ; parochialism ; field experiment ; social preferences ; microcredit …
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We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study whether the individual preferences and propensity to cooperate of …
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We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with 567 children, aged four to eleven, in which we investigate the effect of … social norms on lying and test whether norm sensitivity changes with age. Children think about a number between 1 and 6 in … making their report, we expose children to different empirical and normative information prescribing lying or honesty. We …
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