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Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)
Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ...
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 ...
The effect of risk, ambiguity, and coordination on farmers’ adaptation to climate change: A framed field experiment
(2009-09-21)
The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers ...
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
(2014-05)
The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate against others—exophobia—or because they favor their own kind—endophilia? Using a field experiment that ...
Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
(2011-05)
The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ...
Nudging to reduce meat consumption: Immediate and persistent effects of an intervention at a university restaurant
(2017-11)
Changing dietary habits to reduce the consumption of meat is considered to have great potential to mitigate food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To test if nudging can increase the consumption of vegetarian food, ...
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 ...
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
(2016-06)
Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ...
The hidden costs of nudging: Experimental evidence from reminders in fundraising
(2016-03)
We document the hidden costs of one of the most policy-relevant nudges, reminders. Sending
reminders, while proven effective in facilitating behavior change, may come at a cost for both senders and receivers. Using a large ...
Caseworker's discretion and the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs
(2018-07)
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes ...