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This paper experimentally tests multiple multi-attribute choice models such as a range normalization model and a pairwise normalization model in a consumer context. The experimental design generates choice sets that can distinguish the models as each model predicts a distinct set of demand types. Specifically, we do comparative statics by investigating how choice probabilities of alternatives vary between choice sets. Moreover, we do a cross-validation exercise by constructing a maximum likelihood in the spirit of Harless and Camerer (1994).
A necessary condition for reducing inequality is the social condemnation of it. In fact, policies that aim to reduce inequality can only be effectively implemented if it is considered unacceptable by citizens. Thus, the central question of this research project is: Does fiction reading causally increase prosociality? The hypothesis we work with is that art, in general, and fiction reading in particular, can be one of the tools that helps us change social norms to make inequality less socially acceptable. We randomize participants into two courses: a fiction reading course and an behavioral economics for beginners course with the same intensity. Both courses last for 4 (pilot) to 6 (experiment) weeks. After the courses we use economic games to elicit participants preferences and measu...
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that laws and institutions shape social norms — not only through enforcement but through their signalling function: communicating what is socially acceptable and legitimising or delegitimising group identities in the public sphere. This signalling effect is theorised to be especially powerful when institutional signals are reinforced by religious authority, yet causal evidence from low-institutional-legitimacy, high-religious-salience contexts remains scarce. In contexts such as Pakistan, where the credibility of secular state institutions is constrained and Islamic authority operates as the primary mechanism of norm legitimation, understanding how religious framing modulates the effect of institutional signals on public behaviour is both theoreti...
This study investigates how individuals perceive and respond to financial risk under uncertainty, using an incentivized 24-month simulated personal loan repayment task. Participants recruited via Prolific are randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2×2 between-subjects factorial design, crossing (a) outcome framing (the same financial information presented as gains vs. as losses) and (b) visibility of a running performance score (displayed vs. hidden) throughout the task. Each simulated month, participants decide how much to repay toward a fixed loan installment while managing income, expenses, and a sequence of life events common to all conditions. Behavioral outcomes — repayment amount, overdraft usage, and a composite monthly performance score — are recorded automatically ea...
How does knowledge of past atrocities shape support for contemporary redress policies? More specifically, how do public memory projects shape political attitudes and support for transitional justice mechanisms? While lacking specific knowledge of past atrocities can be associated with denial of ongoing inequalities, recent research on the effects of memorializing past atrocities has shown that these efforts can increase support for democratic institutions and decrease support for previous repressive regimes. We build on this stream of research by exploring the effects of memorialization efforts across a long time horizon: the atrocities committed in the United States as part of the transatlantic slave trade and subsequent institutionalization of chattel slavery that have reverberated th...
This study investigates how overconfidence and underconfidence about own ability shape inferences about the economic environment when outcomes depend on both ability and the environment. We focus on a setting where individuals can switch between environments. We test the hypothesis that overconfident individuals are more likely than underconfident individuals to select environments they perceive as more ability-contingent, and that this selection generates asymmetric belief correction (i.e., overconfident participants correct their biases more than underconfident participants do).
This study employs a 2×2 factorial randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of AI skills training and AI-assisted CV evaluation on recruitment outcomes and subsequent employee performance. Applicants are randomly assigned to one of four groups that vary whether they receive AI training and whether their applications are screened using AI-assisted CV evaluation or conventional human review. Applicants assigned to the training arms complete an AI skills module prior to the recruitment process, while applicants in the AI-screening arms have their CVs initially assessed by an AI tool before final review by recruiters. This design enables us to separately estimate the causal effects of AI training, AI-assisted recruitment, and their interaction. Specifically, it allows us to a...
This randomized online experiment, implemented in Qualtrics with participants recruited through Prolific, examines whether discriminatory purchasing patterns persist after seller identity ceases to predict product quality. Participants first learn a quality difference between two seller types and are subsequently assigned to information or procedural interventions under routine or deliberative decision environments. We test whether seller-based purchasing gaps persist after quality differences and measured beliefs have converged, and whether different interventions reduce this persistence.
This study is a laboratory replication and robustness check of a companion online experiment (Gain-Loss Framing and Feedback Visibility in Financial Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: A Randomized Experiment, registered separately on the AEA RCT Registry — see Secondary IDs) using the same 24-month simulated personal loan repayment task and the same 2×2 design crossing outcome framing (gain vs. loss) and score feedback visibility (displayed vs. hidden). Unlike the online study, where individual participants are independently randomized, this laboratory study randomizes at the session level: each of 8 laboratory sessions (≈24–28 participants per session) is randomly assigned to one of the four conditions, and all participants in a session complete the same scenario together. The study ex...
Do people hold responsibility-sensitive fairness preferences regarding others' greenhouse gas emissions? We study this question in the context of the German heating transition through an incentivized survey experiment fielded in the German Heating and Housing Panel. In a randomized factorial design, participants allocate carbon pricing rebates between households that differ in responsibility-relevant conditions at the time of their heating technology choice. Exogenous variation in policy environments—information about future CO₂ costs and access to subsidies for climate-friendly alternatives—identifies how information and economic capacity shape judgments of responsibility and deservingness. This allows us to isolate responsibility-sensitive fairness preferences and compare them to inco...