Report NEP-EXP-2026-07-20

This is the archive for NEP-EXP, a report on new working papers in the area of Experimental Economics. Daniel Houser issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Cullen, Zöe & Faia, Ester & Guglielminetti, Elisa & Perez-Truglia, Ricardo & Rondinelli, Concetta, 2025, "The Innovation Race: Large Experimental Evidence on Advanced Technologies," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20894, Dec.
• Little, Andrew T. & Nunnari, Salvatore, 2026, "Does Partisanship or Arguing Activate Political Motivated Reasoning?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20999, Jan.
• Fuchs, Larissa & Heinz, Matthias & Pinger, Pia & Thon, Max, 2025, "How to Attract Talent? Field-Experimental Evidence on Emphasizing Flexibility and Career Opportunities in Job Advertisements," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20916, Dec.
• Giunti, Sara & Guariso, Andrea & Mendola, Mariapia & Solmone, Irene, 2025, "Hacking Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Stereotypes: A Field Experiment in Italian High Schools," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20922, Dec.
• Athey, Susan & Cerosimo, Matias & Karlan, Dean & Koutout, Kristine & Steimer, Henrike, 2026, "Impact Matters for Giving at Checkout," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21182, Feb.
• Macours, Karen & Vera Rueda, Julieta & Webb, Duncan, 2026, "Menstrual Stigma and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21167, Feb.
• Delfino, Alexia & Garnero, Andrea & Inferrera, Sergio & Leonardi, Marco & Sadun, Raffaella, 2026, "Unwilling to Reskill? Experimental Evidence from Real-World Jobseekers," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21055, Jan.
• Dykstra, Holly & Exley, Christine & Niederle, Muriel & Wong, Heather, 2026, "When Decisions Require Consideration, People Give Up Control," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21005, Jan.
• Márquez, Karina & Scartascini, Carlos, 2026, "Training Minds, Shaping Policies: Evidence from a Behavioral Economics Course for Public Officials," IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank, number 14634, Jun, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0014087.
• Charles N. Noussair & Tauhidur Rahman, 2026, "Does Burnout hurt Performance? Experimental Evidence," Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, number 2026-02, Apr.
• Jiawei Fu & Cyrus Samii & Ye Wang, 2026, "Inference for Group Interaction Experiments," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.02385, Jul.
• Raisa Sherif & A. R. Shariq Mohammed & Matthew H. Goldberg, 2026, "Do perceptions match pollution levels? Evidence from three Indian cities," Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, number tax-mpg-rps-2026-02, Feb.
• Ennio Bilancini & Leonardo Boncinelli & Pablo Marcos-Prieto & Chiara Nardi, 2026, "Is hostile behavior intuitive or deliberative? A Hawk-Dove experiment with a varying harshness of conflict," DISEIS - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia internazionale, delle istituzioni e dello sviluppo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia internazionale, delle istituzioni e dello sviluppo (DISEIS), number dis2603.
• Stephen M. Nei & Pauline Vorjohann, 2026, "Selecting into social learning," Discussion Papers, University of Exeter, Department of Economics, number 2609, Jul.
• Bart Cockx & Johan Egebark & Greet Van Hoye & Emilie Videnord & Johan Vikström, 2026, "Motivating Job Seekers. A Field Experiment," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, number 26/1148, Jul.
• Lee, Ines & Lleó-Bono, Ana & Rauh, Christopher & Tipoe, Eileen, 2025, "The Causal Effects of Confidence Awareness on Financial Literacy and Behaviour," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20771, Oct.
• Rigissa Megalokonomou & Juliana Silva-Goncalves & Roel van Veldhuizen, 2026, "Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12809.
• Ilia Aliaev & Hubert János Kiss, 2025, "A One-Sentence Nudge Against Present Focus," KRTK-KTI WORKING PAPERS, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, number 2512, Sep.
• Angrist, Noam & Kabay, Sarah & Karlan, Dean & Lau, Lincoln & Wong, Kevin, 2026, "Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21178, Feb.
• Katherine Cuff & Nicolas Marceau & Reyhaneh Nikoonejad & Bradley Ruffle, 2026, "Equilibrium Excess Demand in the Low Income Rental Housing Market: Theory and Experimental Evidence," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12808.
• Nynke de Groot & Bas van der Klaauw, , "A randomized experiment on improving job search skills of older unemployed workers," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-018/V, revised 21 May 2026.
• Chopra, Felix & Haaland, Ingar & Röver, Nicolas & Roth, Christopher, 2026, "Evaluating Behavioral Interventions at Scale with AI," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21049, Jan.
• Alfonsi, Livia & Bauer, Michal & Chytilová, Julie & Miguel, Edward, 2026, "Hitting Rock Bottom: Economic Hardship and Cheating," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21052, Jan.
• Cajal-Grossi, Julia & Vandewalle, Lore & Woodruff, Christopher, 2026, "Quality Unobserved: Can Information Provision Unlock Demand-Side Incentives for Upgrading in Low-income Countries?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21142, Feb.
• Kazuki Sekiya & Suguru Otani & Yuki Komatsu & Yuki Fujii & Shunsuke Ozeki & Shunya Noda, 2026, "Designing Recommendation Exposure and Favorite Lists: A Field Experiment in a Spot-Work Platform," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.17397, Jun, revised Jun 2026.
• Adhvaryu, Achyuta & Gauthier, Jean-François & Jakiela, Pamela & Karlan, Dean, 2026, "Great Expectations: Responses to Current and Future Transfers for Low-Income Individuals," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21174, Feb.
• Agha A. Akram & Gabriella Fleischman & Reshmaan N. Hussam & Akib Khan, 2026, "Experiential and Social Learning," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35410, Jul.
• Blaufus, Kay & Dräger, Lena & Milde, Michael & Schneider, Judith C., 2026, "How Do Money and Tax Illusion Impact Long-Term Investments? An Experiment," Hannover Economic Papers (HEP), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, number dp-750, Jul.
• Kay Blaufus & Lena Dräger & Michael Milde & Judith C. Schneider, 2026, "How Do Money and Tax Illusion Impact Long-Term Investments? An Experiment," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12799.
• Pawel Adrjan & Maria Balgova & Simon Jager & Jonas Jessen & Jason Sockin & Simon Jäger, 2026, "Job Ads as Signals: Evidence from a Priced Amenity and Worker Beliefs," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12794.
• Yilong Xu & Maarten Boksem & Charles N. Noussair & Stefan T. Trautmann & Gijs van de Kuilen & Alan Sanfey, 2025, "Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions," Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, number 2025-04, Oct.
• Abebe, Girum & Fafchamps, Marcel & Koelle, Michael & Quinn, Simon, 2026, "Matching, Management and Employment Outcomes: A Field Experiment with Firm Internships," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21194, Feb.
• Dante Donati & Nandan Rao & Victor Orozco-Olvera & Ana Maria Muñoz Boudet, 2026, "Can Facebook Ads Prevent Malaria? Two Field Experiments in India," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12767.
• BartoÅ¡, VojtÄ›ch & Glogowsky, Ulrich & Rincke, Johannes, 2025, "The Color of Knowledge: Impacts of Tutor Race on Learning and Performance," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20945, Dec.
• Biroli, Pietro & Di Girolamo, Amalia & Sorrenti, Giuseppe & Totarelli, Maddalena, 2025, "Talent is Everywhere, Opportunity is Not: Online Role Model Mentoring and Students’ Aspirations," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20950, Dec.
• Langlotz, Sarah & Matzat, Johannes & Dreher, Axel & Parsons, Christopher, 2026, "Political Ideologies, Redistribution and Local (Mis-)Perceptions of Migrant Stocks and Flows," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21009, Jan.
• Ricardo Perez-Truglia & Rafael Macedo Rubião, 2026, "Is Money Overrated? Misperceived Satisfaction from Income," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35423, Jul.
• Anujit Chakraborty & Arkadev Ghosh & Matt Lowe & Gareth Nellis & Tanika Chakraborty, 2026, "Identity Uncertainty," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12792.
• Kirgios, Erika & Athey, Susan & Duckworth, Angela & Karlan, Dean & Luca, Michael & Milkman, Katherine & Offer-Westort, Molly, 2026, "Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the U.S. and Ghana," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21176, Feb.
• Stefano Barbieri & Yixuan Shi & Sven A. Simon, 2026, "Sign Stealing in Team Contests: Coordination, Unpredictability, and Competition Intensity," Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, number tax-mpg-rps-2026-05, May.
• Danilov, Anastasia & Hong, Ju Yeong & Schöttner, Anja, 2025, "How Labor Market Competition Shapes the Strategic Use of Unfriendly Leadership: An Experimental Analysis," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20850, Nov.
• Karlan, Dean & Lambon-Quayefio, Monica & Manjeer, Utsav & Udry, Christopher, 2026, "Access to Digital Credit for Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Ghana," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21177, Feb.
• Yannick L'Horty & Ngoc-Thao Noet, 2026, "Gamification and Energy Savings: Evidence from Experiments," TEPP Working Paper, TEPP, number 2026-08.
• Jonathan Lafky & Robin Ng, 2024, "Ratings with Heterogeneous Preferences," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany, number crctr224_2024_594v2, Sep, revised Jul 2026.
• Epper, Thomas Frank & Ibsen, Kristoffer & Koch, Alexander K & Nafziger, Julia, 2026, "Predicting University Dropouts: Evidence on the Value of Student Expectations and Motivation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21263, Mar.
• Baul, Tushi & Karlan, Dean & Toyama, Kentaro & Vasilaky, Kathryn, 2026, "Improving Smallholder Agriculture via Video-Based Group Extension," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21179, Feb.
• Bartscher, Alina & Duernecker, Georg & Goensch, Johannes & Wehrhöfer, Nils, 2026, "Causal Effects of Interest Rate Beliefs on Firm Decisions and their Aggregate Implications," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21123, Feb.
• Erik Ansink & Frederic Klapwijk, 2026, "Tier count in traffic-light eco-labels," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-019/VIII, May.
• Ambec, Stefan & Andersson, Henrik & Cezera, Stephane & Kanay, Aysegul & Ouvrard, Benjamin & Panzone, Luca & Simon, Sebastian, 2025, "Taxing and Nudging to Reduce Carbon Emissions: Results from an Online Shopping Experiment," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20871, Nov.
• Cage, Julia & Guillot, Malka & Huang, Yuchen, 2026, "Should Charitable and Political Donations Benefit from Similar Tax Treatments? Evidence from a Survey Experiment," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21132, Feb.
• Furnas, Alexander & Jia, Ruixue & Roberts, Margaret & Wang, Dashun, 2026, "Geopolitics in the Evaluation of International Scientific Collaboration," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21173, Feb.
• Gennaioli, Nicola & Schwerter, Frederik & Tabellini, Guido, 2026, "“Us vs Them†: Salient Conflict and Belief Polarization," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21324, Mar.
• Marina Agranov & Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma & Philipp Strack & Omer Tamuz, 2026, "Learning Through Imitation: An Experiment," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2530, May.
• Del Boca, Daniela & Favero, Luca & Pronzato, Chiara, 2026, "Mothers’ Work, Reconciliation Issues, and Fertility Desires: Evidence from the Evaluation of a Program to Support Mothers," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21031, Jan.
• Dirk Bergemann & Kevin Breuer & Peter Cramton & Jack Hirsch & Yero S. Ndiaye & Axel Ockenfels, 2026, "Soft-Floor Auctions: Harnessing Regret to Improve Efficiency and Revenue," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2512, Apr.
• Braccioli, Federica & Daniele, Gianmarco & Martinangeli, Andrea, 2025, "Breaking negative narratives: Long-term Social Progress and Trust in Institutions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20902, Dec.
• Felipe Barrera-Osorio & Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía & Matias Busso & Sebastian Galiani & Hyunjae Kang & Juan S. Muñoz-Morales & Juan Pantano, 2026, "Compensation vs. Reinforcement: Experimental Identification of Parental Aversion to Inequality in Offspring," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35375, Jun.
• Armantier, Olivier & Doerr, Sebastian & Frost, Jon & Fuster, Andreas & Shue, Kelly, 2025, "Nothing to Hide? Gender and Age Differences in Willingness to Share Data," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20824, Nov.
• Jack, Kelsey & Jayachandran, Seema & Kala, Namrata & Pande, Rohini, 2026, "Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21122, Feb.
• Aurélien Baillon & Joseph Capuno & Aleli Kraft & Jenny Kudymowa & Owen O'Donnell, 2026, "Leveraging Probability Distortion to Target Prevention: A Cardiovascular Screening Experiment in the Philippines," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-012/I, Mar.
• Dykstra, Holly & Fernández-Guerrico, Sofia, 2026, "Offsetting the Earnings Disincentive in Public Housing: Evidence from a Behaviorally Informed Field Intervention," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21316, Mar.
• Matthieu Bunel & Elisabeth Tovar & Marie-Noëlle Lefebvre, 2026, "The Customer Is Always Right? How LLMs and Humans Judge Discrimination," EconomiX Working Papers, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX, number 2026-16.
• Bill Roungas & Sebastiaan Meijer, 2026, "Congestion-Based Slot Pricing in a Railway Auction Game," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.01822, Jul.
• Dirk Bergemann & Soheil Ghili & Xinyang Hu & Chuanhao Li & Zhuoran Yang, 2026, "Training Language Models for Bilateral Trade with Private Information," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2514, Apr.
• Cars Hommes & Isabelle Salle & Julien Pinter, 2026, "Fiscal Beliefs & Narratives," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute, number 26-031/VI, Jun.
• Daniel Gotsman & Charles N. Noussair & Yiwei Qu, 2026, "Emotions and market activity: Cause or consequence?," Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, number 2026-01, Apr.
• Carattini, Stefano & Dvorak, Fabian & Logar, Ivana & Ozdemir-Oluk, Begum, 2025, "Demand for Carbon-Neutral Products," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20843, Nov.
• Gu, Gyun Cheol, 2026, "Is AI Becoming More Human? Evidence from LLMs and the Ultimatum Game," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 129505, Jun.
• Jayachandran, Seema & Voena, Alessandra, 2025, "Women’s Power in the Household," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20938, Dec.
• Joshua Goldstein & Christos Koulovatianos & Jian Li & Carsten Schröder, 2026, "Combining a Survey Experiment with Lifecycle Models to Evaluate Pronatalist Policies," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, number 2171.
• Arnold Michel Koyou & Ousmane Z. Traoré & Maurice Doyon, 2026, "Dr. Jekyll ou Dr. Hyde, la dualité consommateur-citoyen et le consentement à payer," CIRANO Working Papers, CIRANO, number 2026s-12, Jul.
• Cinnirella, Francesco & Della Lena, Sebastiano & Manzoni, Elena & Panebianco, Fabrizio, 2026, "God, Guilt, and Giving: Public Good Contribution among Catholics and Protestants," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21081, Jan.
• Pascale Bazoche & Sabine Duvaleix & Marie Lassalas, 2026, "Organic farming adoption in the French wine sector: can cooperatives make a difference?," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05653061, Jul, DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2026.102594.
• Abebe, Girum & Fafchamps, Marcel & Koelle, Michael & Quinn, Simon & Schwantje, Tom, 2026, "Management Style Under the Spotlight: Evidence from Studio Recordings," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21043, Jan.
• Wen, Qianglin & Wu, Xiangkun & Shi, Chengchun & Li, Ting & Tang, Niansheng & Zhang, Yingying & Zhu, Hongtu, 2026, "Robust sequential experimental design for A/B testing," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 138897, Apr.
• Gallo, E. & Heath, R. & Lusthaus, J. & Varese, F., 2026, "How to Disrupt a Market," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 2652, Jun.
• Foltyn, Richard & Olsson, Jonna, 2026, "The Worth of a “Wo†: Gender Bias in Financial Advice from LLMs," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21323, Mar.