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more impatient decision maker may experiment more, given lump-sum final payoffs. We show that (a) and (b) are robust to … decisions at each instant: stop or experiment, and then at what level n. The second choice equates the marginal costs and …
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Madrassas (Islamic religious seminaries) have been alleged to be responsible for fostering Islamic extremism and violence, and for indoctrinating their students in narrow worldviews. However, we know very little about the behavior of Madrassa students, and how other groups in their communities...
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This paper studies the determinants of college major choice using a unique "information" experiment embedded in a …
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The authors extend the standard public goods game in a variety of ways, in particular by allowing for endogenous preference over institutions and by studying the relationship between individual types, their preferences, and later behavior within the various institutional environments. They...
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We experimentally investigate a repeated "inspection game" where, in the stage game, an employee can either work or shirk and an employer simultaneously chooses to inspect or not inspect. Combined payoffs are maximized when the employee works and the employer does not inspect. However, the...
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