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Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In our study of climate change and emissions reductions, we took advantage of the...
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Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately … asset. Then, we randomize whether the second member of the pair: (1) receives no information about the first member, or (2 … possession. This allows us to estimate the effects of learning plus possession, and learning alone, relative to a (no information …
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Previous research suggests that human reaction to risky opportunities reflects two contradicting biases: "loss aversion", and "limited level of reasoning" that leads to overconfidence. Rejection of attractive gambles is explained by loss aversion, while counterproductive risk seeking is...
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We examine the long-term effects of a 1998-2003 randomized experiment in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Individual Development … that control group renters caught up rapidly with the treatment group after the experiment ended. As of 2009, the program …
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It is common for authors discovering a significant interaction of a measured variable X with a manipulated variable Z to examine simple effects of Z at different levels of X. These “spotlight” tests are often misunderstood even in the simplest cases, and it appears that consumer researchers...
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We report the results of a laboratory experiment on crowd-out in a voluntary contribution mechanism public good game …
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