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We conduct a discrete choice experiment with leaders of a random sample of 164 Peruvian indigenous communities (ICs …
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We study gender differences in willingness to guess. We present the results of a field experiment where participants …
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institutional interventions or major structural transformations? To answer these questions, we conducted two public good experiments … with 276 participants in Egypt. In the first experiment, we find that priming high cooperators with a message that makes … experiment, we test how far three possible appeal messages – emphasizing religious, patriotic, or social harm– could drive low …
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robustness of Abarbanell and Bernard's (1992) underreaction results to the nature of the information. Consistent with systematic … optimism, forecasts are found to underreact to negative earnings information but overreact to positive information. However … positive versus negative information in the controlled experimental setting of Gillette, Stevens, Watts, and Williams (1999 …
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, i.e., observational learning. While information technologies are creating increasing opportunities for firms to … other. Based on a unique natural experimental setting resulting from information policy shifts at the online seller Amazon … intriguing finding is that, while negative WOM is more influential than positive WOM, positive observational learning information …
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Much of the evidence raising doubts about Expected Utility Theory (EUT) comes from experiments involving hypothetical … decisions. Most of the rest of the evidence comes from experiments where respondents are asked to make a large number of …
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Significant difference between response to real and hypothetical valuation questions is often referred to as hypothetical bias. Some economists have had success with using "cheap talk" (which entails reading a script that explicitly highlights the hypothetical bias problem before participants...
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This study adopts an internet-based experiment to investigate whether and how individual donors use nonprofit … organizations' financial and nonfinancial information when making their donation decisions. Using undergraduate students in the … nonfinancial information, such as nonprofit organizations' goals, outcomes, programs and missions, than financial information …
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