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In high HIV-prevalence contexts, marriage can lead to significant risks through spousal behaviours. Yet, individuals … documents that uncertainty about spouses' HIV status contributes to marital dissolutions. Innovations, such as HIV couples …' testing and counselling - and, in the future, possibly rapid self-testing - that reduce this uncertainty can thus have …
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This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees …
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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk … more likely to enter competition in the presence of strategic uncertainty when they expect competitive entries from others … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty. …
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We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...
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We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...
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survey data. In this paper we use an incentivized experiment, namely the trust game, and two sets of survey questions to i …
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We conduct a field trust game under a natural experiment context to test the impacts of urbanisation on trust. We …-led urbanisation. We also run a regression on the trust exhibited towards participants in the experiment and found the partial effect …
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We validate survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390078
We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been …
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … perform a large "lab-in-the-field" experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers - a suitable comparison group - and …
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