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political movements. In the leadup to two right-wing rallies, we exogenously shift potential participants' beliefs about the …
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, who adjust their ability beliefs downwards in response to feedback. …
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exhaust the matching funds, so their donation is not pivotal to obtaining matching funds. We develop a theory of how beliefs … and further show that beliefs about peers' donations matter. Our theoretical, lab, and field results combined suggest … people are more likely to donate when they believe they are more pivotal to securing matching money. Beliefs about others …
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Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we measure the programming skills of job...
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In corporate practice, incentive schemes are often complicated even for simple tasks. Hence, the way they are communicated might matter. In a controlled field experiment, we study a minimally invasive change in the communication of a well-established incentive scheme - a reminder regarding the...
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This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment in elementary schools, 1.377 pupils are randomly assigned to one of three conditions in a multiple-choice test: (i) gain frame (Control), (ii) loss frame (Loss) and (iii) gain...
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A vast literature investigating behavioural underpinnings of financial bubbles and crashes relies on laboratory experiments. However, it is not yet clear how findings generated in a highly artificial environment relate to the human behaviour in the wild. It is of concern that the laboratory...
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