Experiment

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
Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic’s onset. In April and …
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
PDF Media Coverage in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German) Media Coverage in BR alpha Campus Talks (TED-talk style, German)
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 @ 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
PDF Supplementary Material Summary Thread on Twitter (10-minutes) Presentation Video
Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
Addressing Validity and Generalizability Concerns in Field Experiments
In the context of a real-world recruitment experiment with 3,305 public schools, we systematically analyze the empirical importance of …
Gerhard Riener, Sebastian O. Schneider, Valentin Wagner
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Higher Order Risk Preferences: Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior - Talk @ iHEA 2021
Please find the corresponding working paper here! Thanks to Arthur Attema for organizing the session, and to Stefan Lipann and Daniel Wiesen for chairing the session and discussing the presentations.
Jul 14, 2021
Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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
Rerandomization to Improve Covariate Balance by Minimizing the MSE of a Treatment Effect Estimator
We present a new approach to treatment assignment in (field) experiments for the case of one or multiple treatment groups. This …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Martin Schlather
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