From Risk and Time Preferences to Cultural Models of Causality: On the Challenges and Possibilities of Field Experiments, with Examples from Rural Southwestern Madagascar

Field experiments were conducted with farmers in the Limari Valley of Chile to test extant theory on right-to-choose auctions. Water volumes that differed by reservoir source and time of availability were offered for sale by the research team. The auctions were supplemented by protocols to elicit risk and time preferences of bidders. We find that the right-to-choose auctions raise significantly more revenue than the benchmark sequential auction. Risk attitudes explain a substantial amount of the difference in bidding between auction institutions, consonant with received theory. The auction bidding revealed distinct preferences for water types, which has implications for market re-design.

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Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.102.2.941 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 102 (2) ◽

pp. 941-964 ◽

Cited By ~ 327

Author(s):

Maarten J Voors ◽

Eleonora E. M Nillesen ◽

Philip Verwimp ◽

Erwin H Bulte ◽

Robert Lensink ◽

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Keyword(s):

Field Experiment ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Violent Conflict ◽

Time Preferences ◽

Altruistic Behavior ◽

Social Risk ◽

Risk Seeking ◽

Long Run ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior: individuals exposed to violence display more altruistic behavior towards their neighbors, are more risk-seeking, and have higher discount rates. Large adverse shocks can thus alter savings and investments decisions, and potentially have long-run consequences—even if the shocks themselves are temporary. (JEL C93, D12, D74, 012, 017, 018)

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Toward an understanding of the development of time preferences: Evidence from field experiments

Journal of Public Economics ◽

10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.06.007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 177 ◽

pp. 104039 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

James Andreoni ◽

Michael A. Kuhn ◽

John A. List ◽

Anya Samek ◽

Kevin Sokal ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Field Experiments ◽

Time Preferences

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Toward an Understanding of the Development of Time Preferences: Evidence from Field Experiments

10.3386/w25590 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

James Andreoni ◽

Michael Kuhn ◽

John List ◽

Anya Samek ◽

Kevin Sokal ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Field Experiments ◽

Time Preferences

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ELICITING RISK AND TIME PREFERENCES USING FIELD EXPERIMENTS: SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

Research in Experimental Economics - Field Experiments in Economics ◽

10.1016/s0193-2306(04)10005-7 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 125-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Glenn W. Harrison ◽

Morten Igel Lau ◽

Elisabet E. Rutström ◽

Melonie B. Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Field Experiments ◽

Time Preferences ◽

Methodological Issues

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Electron Microscopy of the Shape of Small Metal Particles

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100079024 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 300-301

Author(s):

M. Jose Yacaman

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Metal Particle ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Size Range ◽

Dark Field ◽

Metal Particles ◽

Bragg Condition ◽

Crystal Particle ◽

Small Metal Particle ◽

Small Metal Particles

In the Study of small metal particles the shape is a very Important parameter. Using electron microscopy Ino and Owaga(l) have studied the shape of twinned particles of gold. In that work electron diffraction and contrast (dark field) experiments were used to produce models of a crystal particle. In this work we report a method which can give direct information about the shape of an small metal particle in the amstrong- size range with high resolution. The diffraction pattern of a sample containing small metal particles contains in general several systematic and non- systematic reflections and a two-beam condition can not be used in practice. However a N-beam condition produces a reduced extinction distance. On the other hand if a beam is out of the bragg condition the effective extinction distance is even more reduced.

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