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On customer (dis-)honesty in unobservable queues : the role of lying aversion

Estrada Rodriguez, Arturo; Ibrahim, Rouba; Zhan, Dongyuan - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 71 (2025) 1, pp. 844-860

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The impact of behavioral biases on investment decisions : a serial mediation analysis

Shunmugasundaram, V.; Sinha, Aashna - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 30 (2025) 59, pp. 5-21

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of behavioral biases on investment decisions through a serial mediation of overconfidence and disposition effects. Design/methodology/approach The authors assess the behavioral biases affecting the investment decisions of life...

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How Important is Selection? Experimental versus Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

McKenzie, David J.; Gibson, John K.; Stillman, Steven - 2012

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure...

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Microfinance Games

Gin??, Xavier; Jakiela, Pamela; Karlan, Dean - 2012

Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion,...

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Are Vaccination Campaigns Misinformed? : Experimental Evidence from COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Markhof, Yannick - 2023

Routine immunization coverage estimated in surveys often substantially differs from figures reported in administrative records, presenting a dilemma for researchers and policy makers. Using high-frequency phone surveys and administrative records from government sources in 36 low- and...

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To Serve the Community or Oneself : The Public Servant's Dilemma

Barr, Abigail; Lindel??w, Magnus; Serneels, Pieter - 2013

is hindered by problems of measurement. To overcome these problems, the authors use an economic experiment to investigate …. The experiment allows the authors to study the effect of wages, effort observance, rules for monitor assignment, and …

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How do beliefs about the gender wage gap affect the demand for public policy?

Settele, Sonja - In: American economic journal 14 (2022) 2, pp. 475-508

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Adolescent behavior, learning, and knowledge spillovers : evidence from a randomized experiment

Alan, Sule; Biswas, Kumar; Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2025

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When half is at least 50 % : effect of "framing" and probability level on frequency estimates

Mandel, David R.; Kelly, Megan - In: Journal of behavioral decision making 37 (2024) 3, pp. 1-13

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The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing Policy : An Experimental Case Study of Zambia

Abbink, Klaus; Jayne, Thomas S.; Moller, Lars C. - 2012

uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the … Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy … in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically …

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