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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Machine Predictions and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
(2021-04-20)
We show that disclosing machine predictions to affected parties can trigger self-fulfilling prophecies. In an investment game, we experimentally vary investors’ and recipients’ access to a machine prediction about recipients’ ...
WP313_BG_exp1_2021
A data set comprising 1397 distinct examples. We collected this data in an incentivized field study that we conducted at a large German university over three years (2016-2019) with first-semester economics students. Most ...
WP313_BG_exp2_2021
In our experiment, participants engage in three subsequent one-shot investment games. Investors initially choose between keeping or investing 10 monetary units (MU) with recipients, who, in the case of investment, decide ...
WP318_BKvS_exp_2021
By means of three treatments, we identify the causal effect of differences in monetary incentives on the production of social goods allowing for self-selection. The main structure of the experiment is as follows: After ...
FLEX
FLEX – the Frankfurt Laboratory for Experimental Economic Research is a research center at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
(2021-07-24)
We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate ...