Organizers:

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Wagner College

Session Chairs:

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Wagner College

Papers:

"Creating a Lab in the Field: Economics Experiments for Policymaking"
Angelino C.G. Viceisza, Spelman College (Contact Author)

"What’s Yours Is Mine, and What’s Mine Is Mine: Bargaining Power and Income Concealing Between Spouses in India"
Carolina Castilla, Colgate University (Contact Author)

"Absolute Versus Relative Performance Pay: Evidence from an Experiment Targeting Child Malnutrition in West Bengal"
Prakarsh Singh, Amherst College (Contact Author)

"How Do Better-Ranked Colleges Help Meet India’s Skill Shortages? Evidence Using a Regression Discontinuity Design"
Subha Mani, Fordham University
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Wagner College
Smriti Sharma, Delhi School of Economics
Saurabh Singhal, UNU-WIDER

Discussants:

Carolina Castilla, Colgate University
Angelino C.G. Viceisza, Spelman College
Subha Mani, Fordham University
Prakarsh Singh, Amherst College

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Organizers:

Alex R. Rees-Jones, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Session Chairs:

Alex R. Rees-Jones, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Papers:

"Loss Aversion Motivates Tax Sheltering: Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns"
Alex R. Rees-Jones, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Contact Author)

"Gift Exchange at Work"
Gautam Rao, Harvard University
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley
John A. List, The University of Chicago
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley

"The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiments Are Substantially Underestimated"
Keith Ericson, Boston University
Katherine B. Coffman, The Ohio State University
Lucas C. Coffman, The Ohio State University

"Does Having More Time to Repay Break the Payday-Loan Rollover Cycle? Implications for Understanding Myopic Borrowers"
Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paige M. Skiba, Vanderbilt University Law School

Discussants:

Leigh Wedenoja, Cornell University
Michaela Pagel, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Kuhn, University of Oregon
Carolina Castilla, Colgate University

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Organizers:

Andrew McGee, Simon Fraser University

Session Chairs:

Andrew McGee, Simon Fraser University

Papers:

"Did Money Change Them? Examining Hypothetical Bias When Eliciting Preferences for Personal and Social Benefits"
Gregory E. Howard, East Carolina University (Contact Author)

"Trust, Reciprocity and Trustworthiness Between Spouses: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India"
Carolina Castilla, Colgate University (Contact Author)

"Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives"
Andrew McGee, Simon Fraser University (Contact Author)
Peter McGee, National University of Singapore

"Like Mike or Like LeBron? Do the Most Able Need College to Signal?"
Michael Sinkey, University of West Georgia (Contact Author)
Benjamin C. Anderson, Colgate University

Discussants:

TBA

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