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Gift Exchange within a Firm: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Bellemare, Charles - The Field Experiments Website - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its … shocks. Moreover, reciprocity is the strongest when the relationship between planters and the firm is longterm. …

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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Falk, Armin - The Field Experiments Website - 2004

This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for … charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters … warm-glow motive. Second, the paper confirms the economic relevance of reciprocity by using field data. This extends the …

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Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A. - The Field Experiments Website - 2009

This study presents an overview of modern field experiments and their usage in economics. Our discussion focuses on three distinct periods of field experimentation that have influenced the economics literature. The first might well be thought of as the dawn of ""field"" experimentation: the work...

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Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

Levitt, Steven D.; List, John A.; Sadoff, Sally - The Field Experiments Website - 2010

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Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pulling One Off

List, John A. - The Field Experiments Website - 2011

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Field Experiments in Labor Economics

List, John A.; Rasul, Imran - The Field Experiments Website - 2010

We overview the use of field experiments in labor economics. We showcase studies that highlight the central advantages of this methodology, which include: (i) using economic theory to design the null and alternative hypotheses; (ii) engineering exogenous variation in real world economic...

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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Grip, Andries de; Sauermann, Jan - The Field Experiments Website - 2011

training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on …

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - The Field Experiments Website - 2009

-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers' pro …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …

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Matching and challenge gifts to charity: evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments

Rondeau, Daniel; List, John A. - The Field Experiments Website - 2008

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled labo- ratory experiment to examine the …

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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations

Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - The Field Experiments Website - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.

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