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A Dynamic Explanation of the Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Disparity

scientific article published in October 2010

A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

scientific article published in March 2016

A New Approach to an Age-Old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly

scientific article published in June 2016

A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game

scientific article published in March 2020

An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?

scientific article published in October 2009

Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Evidence from the Lab and Field

scientific article published in September 2010

Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Theory and Empirical Evidence

scientific article published in July 2004

Can Myopic Loss Aversion Explain the Equity Premium Puzzle? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Professional Traders

scientific article published in September 2016

Carrots that Look Like Sticks: Toward an Understanding of Multitasking Incentive Schemes

scientific article published in October 2012

Chasing the Smokestack: Strategic Policymaking With Multiple Instruments

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

scientific article published in December 2009

Cigarette demand: a meta‐analysis of elasticities

scientific article published on October 1, 2003

Design and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Field Experiments in Panel Data Settings

scientific article published in October 2019

Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment

scientific article published in December 2020

Determinants of securing academic interviews after tenure denial: evidence from a zero-inflated Poisson model

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Do Appeals to Donor Benefits Raise More Money than Appeals to Recipient Benefits? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Pick.Click.Give.

scientific article published in December 2019

Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions

scientific article published in November 2010

Do Equal Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence From A Natural Field Experiment On Job-Entry Decisions

scientific article published in September 2018

Do Explicit Warnings Eliminate the Hypothetical Bias in Elicitation Procedures? Evidence from Field Auctions for Sportscards

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Do Natural Field Experiments Afford Researchers More or Less Control than Laboratory Experiments? A Simple Model

scientific article published in January 2015

Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments

scientific article published in March 2017

Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in November 2012

Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?

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Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

scientific article published in March 2011

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

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Economics. Homo experimentalis Evolves

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Empirical Implementation of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models

Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment

Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education

scientific article published in January 2014

Estimating Individual Ambiguity Aversion: A Simple Approach

scientific article published in March 2015

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work

scientific article published in February 2016

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

scientific article published in September 2008

Field Experiments in Labor Economics

scientific article published in June 2010

Field Experiments in Markets

scientific article published in March 2016

Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data

Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future

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Friend or Foe? A Natural Experiment of the Prisoner's Dilemma

scientific article published in March 2006

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

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Harnessing Policy Complementarities to Conserve Energy: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in May 2017

How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? An Example from the Preference Reversal Literature

scientific article published in May 2010

How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

scientific article published in March 2012

How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy

scientific article published in July 2004

Information Cascades: Evidence from An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals

scientific article published in December 2006

Informed Consent in Social Science

scientific article published in Science

Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth

scientific article published in March 2007

Interview Scheduling Strategies of New Ph.D. Economists

Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

scientific article published in October 2020

Investment under Uncertainty: Testing the Options Model with Professional Traders

scientific article published in May 2010

Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in September 2008

Is foreign direct investment attracted to 'knowledge creators'?

Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?

scientific article published in December 2006

Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

scientific article published in January 2011

Market Design, Human Behavior, and Management

scientific article published in March 2020

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

scientific article published in January 2008

Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself

scientific article published in November 2017

Moral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence

scientific article published in May 2016

Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Experimental Economics

scientific article published in January 2016

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

scientific article published in April 2007

Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace

scientific article published in June 2003

Non est Disputandum de Generalizability? A Glimpse into The External Validity Trial

scientific article published in July 2020

Nonrenewable Resource Prices: Deterministic or Stochastic Trends?

scientific article published in July 2005

Nurture affects gender differences in spatial abilities

scientific article published on August 29, 2011

Ode to the sea: Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

scientific article published in June 2014

On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics

scientific article published in March 2012

On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics: With A Response To Camerer

scientific article published in November 2013

Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

scientific article published in August 2015

Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production: Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment

scientific article published in October 2020

Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

scientific article published in March 2006

Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

Redefine statistical significance

article by Daniel J Benjamin et al published January 2018 in Nature Human Behaviour

Research Registries: Facts, Myths, and Possible Improvements

scientific article published in June 2020

Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in September 2020

Rise and fall of competitiveness in individualistic and collectivistic societies

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Risk Preferences of Children and Adolescents in Relation to Gender, Cognitive Skills, Soft Skills, and Executive Functions

scientific article published in April 2019

So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design

scientific article published in January 2010

Supply and Demand for Discrimination: Strategic Revelation of Own Characteristics in a Trust Game

scientific article published in February 2016

Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

scientific article published in December 2009

Testing the Theory of Multitasking: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories

scientific article published in November 2013

That's News to Me! Information Revelation in Professional Certification Markets

scientific article published in July 2006

The $100 Million Nudge: Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed using a Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in August 2020

The Behavioralist As Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance

scientific article published in March 2014

The Behavioralist Goes Door-To-Door: Understanding Household Technological Diffusion Using a Theory-Driven Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in August 2019

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

scientific article published in June 2012

The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions

scientific article published in September 2005

The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations

article by Tanjim Hossain et al published December 2012 in Management Science

The Behavioralist Visits the Factory: Increasing Productivity Using Simple Framing Manipulations

scientific article published in December 2009

The Behavioralist as Nutritionist: Leveraging Behavioral Economics To Improve Child Food Choice and Consumption

scientific article published in May 2014

The Business of Business is Business: Why (Some) Firms Should Provide Public Goods when they Sell Private Goods

scientific article published in January 2017

The Dozen Things Experimental Economists Should Do (More of)

scientific article published in January 2019

The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment

scientific article published in October 2019

The Economics of Open Air Markets

scientific article published in October 2009

The Effect of Early Education on Social Preferences

scientific article published in December 2016

The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

scientific article published in March 2016

The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

scientific article published in September 2012

The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds on Charitable Giving: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

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The Effects of Wage Contracts on Workplace Misbehaviors: Evidence from a Call Center Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in June 2016

The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers

scientific article published in June 2018

The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains

scientific article published in March 2019

The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity

scientific article published in February 2013

The Making of Homo Honoratus: From Omission to Commission

scientific article published in June 2015

The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence from the Field

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The Nature of Excess: Using Randomized Treatments to Investigate Price Dynamics

scientific article published in August 2010

The Science of Using Science: Towards an Understanding of the Threats to Scaling Experiments

scientific article published in May 2019

The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods

scientific article published in December 2020

The Uncertainty Effect: When a Risky Prospect is Valued Less than its Worst Possible Outcome

article by Uri Hezkia Gneezy et al published 1 November 2006 in Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from Nationwide Natural Field Experiments

scientific article published in December 2020

Toward an Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence

scientific article published in September 2019

Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

scientific article published in April 2012

Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

scientific article published in November 2014

Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

scientific article published in February 2012

Toward an Understanding of the Development of Time Preferences: Evidence from Field Experiments

scientific article published in February 2019

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Apologies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in March 2019

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda

scientific article published in September 2019

Toward an Understanding of why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in November 2013

Toward an understanding of the relative strengths of positive and negative reciprocity

Using Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics

scientific article published in August 2013

Using Tontines to Finance Public Goods: Back to the Future?

scientific article published in December 2004

Voting to Tell Others

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

scientific article published in May 2009

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

scientific article published in December 2009

When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

scientific article published in January 2018