Experiment

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: Novel Method, New 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: Novel Method, New Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior
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
Measuring Utility – An Application to Higher Order Risk
Measuring utility is at the heart of microeconomics and has important applications in many areas of economics. Here we present a new …
Sebastian O. Schneider, Marcela Ibanez, Gerhard Riener
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
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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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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
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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
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Nudging or Paying? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Nov 19, 2020 2:15 PM — 3:00 PM
Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter