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An Idea Worth its Salt? Experimental Evidence on the Origins of Money in Prehistoric Bulgaria

Rietz, Justin D.; Nikolov, Vassil; Kaya, Deniz - 2023

Does money naturally emerge from barter as our economic textbooks suggest, or is it a ``creature of the state"? Significant historical evidence supports the state theory. However, recent findings from excavations of the prehistoric town of Provadia indicate that salt, a good unique in its high...

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How Do Managers Form Their Expectations About Working From Home? Survey Experiments on the Perception of Productivity

Erdsiek, Daniel; Rost, Vincent - 2023

analyse whether managers’ beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH affect their adoption decisions. Exploiting exogenous … variation in managers’ information set, we find that managers update their beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH when … increases managers’ willingness to adopt or intensify WFH policies. Combining our main survey experiment with two follow …

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Communication Architecture Affects Gender Differences in Negotiation

Greenberg, Adam Eric; Petrie, Ragan - 2023

Women tend to face worse outcomes than men in negotiations, and this may partially explain the observed gender wage gap. Most prior work documenting the gender earnings gap in negotiations has focused on settings in which negotiations were conducted face-to-face. Given the prevalence of...

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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior : A Randomized Educational Intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year-old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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Norm Enforcement on Minorities : Empirical and Experimental Evidence from Traffic Violations

Deng, Xiaoyang; Xue, Lian; Yang, Shuo; Wang, Tao - 2023

minority” effect. We next conducted a laboratory experiment with a street-crossing task, to further investigate the key drivers … from a survey experiment showed that a minority identity with salient observability is associated with higher compliance …

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The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories : Material Culture and Moral Economy

Svorenčík, Andrej - 2023

The emergence of experimental economics laboratories is tied to adopting computers as key instruments for conducting experimental research in economics. Various ways in which computer technology as a new form of material culture in experimental economics changed the practice of economics...

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Culture as a Signal : Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Cai, Wei; Campbell, Dennis; Yu, Jiehang - 2023

of culture, teamwork, and leverage a company’s proprietary data of a natural field experiment that generates exogenous …

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Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Firm Performance? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Zhou, Xiangyi; Li, Ruixue; An, Heng; Li, Jay Y. - 2023

Exploiting the Central Environmental Inspections (CEI) in China as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that public …

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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior – a Randomized Educational Intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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Determinants of Financial Literacy and Behavioral Bias Among Adolescents

Aschenwald, Marco; Holzknecht, Armando; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2023

Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...

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