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Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior
(2010-08)
This paper reports from a simple natural field experiment based on an eco-nomics exam. Part of the exam consisted of 30 multiple choice questions, where the students obtained 1 point per correct answer while 1 point was ...
Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment
(2010-03-31)
Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from
various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty
shootouts win significantly more often than ...
Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Tell Me Who to Follow! - Field Experiment Evidence on Voluntary Donations
(2010-06-02)
We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the ...