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Will you accept without knowing what? : a Thuringian newspaper experiment of the Yes-No Game
Güth, Werner; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2010
less likely when participants are older and submit their decisisons via mail rather than the Internet. By comparing our …
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The Online Laboratory : Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
Horton, John J.; Rand, David G.; Zeckhauser, Richard J. - 2015
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments. They provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool, and allow researchers to control the experimental context. Online experiments, we show, can be just as valid - both internally and externally - as...
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Fairness in the mail and opportunism in the internet : a newspaper experiment on ultimatum bargaining
Güth, Werner; Schmidt, Carsten; Sutter, Matthias - 2001
On May 11, 2001, readers of the Berliner Zeitung were invited to participate in an ultimatum bargaining experiment … of behavior received a prize of DM 500. Decisions could be submitted by mail, fax, or via the internet. Behavior is … bargaining ; newspaper (or internet) experiment ; distribution conflicts …
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325392
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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics: With a Response to Commentors
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; List, John A. - 2013
Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...
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Free Riding in the Lab and in the Field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good...
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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas - 2005
take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to parental education and height. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267371
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267536
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James Joseph - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
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