Experiment

One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality
Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by …
Zvonimir Bašić, Stefania Bortolotti, Daniel Salicath, Stefan Schmidt, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey
This paper examines the role of social norms and political polarization in shaping vaccination attitudes and behaviors in the context …
Mustafa Kaba, Murat Koyuncu, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
PDF DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104818
Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test
Loss aversion is typically associated with poor financial decisions. In contrast, loss-aversion based precautionary saving theories …
Marcela Ibanez, Sebastian O. Schneider
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Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a …
Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
PDF DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01090
Measuring Utility – An Application to Higher Order Risk
We present the first experimental method to non-parametrically elicit utility functions and associated measures of (higher order) risk …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Marcela Ibanez, Gerhard Riener
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Information provision over the phone saves lives
Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic’s onset. In April and May …
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences - Seminar Talk @ University of Amsterdam
On Thursday, May 11, I’ll be presenting our paper at the CREED Seminar series - If you’re interested and happen to be around, come and join the talk!
May 11, 2023 4:00 PM E building
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
Financial literacy, experimental preference measures and field behavior – A randomized educational intervention
We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students …
Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim, Sebastian O. Schneider
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Information provision over the phone saves lives @ CSAE Conference 2022
On Wednesday, March 16, I’ll be presenting our paper “Information provision over the phone saves lives: A randomized controlled trial to contain COVID-19 in rural Bangladesh at the pandemic’s onset” at University Oxford’s CSAE conference 2022.
Mar 16, 2022 12:00 PM
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
We present and use a novel method to elicit and measure the intensities of higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior