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Intermediated Social Preferences: Altruism in an Algorithmic Era
What are the consequences of intermediating moral responsibility through complex organizations or transactions? This chapter examines individual...
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Basisgeld plus Steuergutschriften statt Hartz IV
The author proposes randomised controlled trials in Germany with a partial non-conditional basic income scheme in combination with tax credits for...
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Calendar effects in daily aggregate employment creation and destruction in Spain
In this paper, we discuss the time series properties of a novel daily series of aggregate employment creation and destruction as registered by the...
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Breaking the low pay, no pay cycle: the effects of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement programme
This paper presents the final economic results of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA’s distinctive combination of...
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Hiring discrimination based on national origin and religious closeness: results from a field experiment in the Paris area
This study uses the findings of a test carried out by correspondence in order to assess separately the potential hiring effects of North African...
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Socialisation, trust and reciprocity among young people
This paper analyzes the contribution of youth’s different time allocations to positive behaviors in exchanges. Psychologists highlight that time...
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Discrimination in grading: experimental evidence from primary school teachers
This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. For this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or...
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Heterogeneous ambiguity attitudes: a field experiment among small-scale stock investors in China
We conducted quasi-field experiments in Chinese brokerage houses to investigate how investors react to ambiguity relative to quantifiable risks and...
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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment
During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness-absence...
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Behavior in second-price auctions by highly experienced eBay buyers and sellers
We report on sealed-bid second-price auctions that we conducted on the Internet using subjects with substantial prior experience: they were highly...
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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: an experiment in rural Ethiopia
We investigate risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian farmers in one of the poorest regions of the world. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity...
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A field experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment
We conduct a framed field experiment in rural Ethiopia to test the seminal hypothesis that insurance provision induces farmers to take greater, yet...
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Outrunning the gender gap—boys and girls compete equally
Recent studies find that women are less competitive than men. This gender difference in competitiveness has been suggested as one possible...
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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence
This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50...
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The online laboratory: conducting experiments in a real labor market
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments. They provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool,...
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Limits to Growth in Organic Sales
The price gap between organic and conventional food might explain the low market share of organics in the Netherlands. A real-life experiment was...
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Does trust extend beyond the village? Experimental trust and social distance in Cameroon
In this paper we use experimental data from rural Cameroon to quantify the effect of social distance on trust and altruism. Our measure of social...
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Social Norms and Behavior in the Local Commons as Seen Through the Lens of Field Experiments
Behavior in the local commons is usually embedded within a context of incentives, regulations and social norms for the group of resource users....
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A long-term forecast of market prices for civil and military transport aircraft
The paper briefly examines the procedures to forecast the price of aircraft and helicopters and their results in calculating aircraft deliveries. It...
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Negatives in symmetric input–output tables: the impossible quest for the Holy Grail
In the Supply-Use (or Make-Use) input–output models, “product-technology” (PT) or “fixed-industry-sales-structure” (FISS) assumptions are more widely...