Experiment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Income Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Loss Aversion – An Empirical Test

This paper empirically examines the behavioral precautionary saving hypothesis by Kőszegi and Rabin (2009) stating that uncertainty …

Marcela Ibanez, Sebastian O. Schneider

Nudging or Paying? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Feb 12, 2021 — Feb 9, 2020

Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter