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- Influence
Public goods experiments without confidentiality: a glimpse into fund-raising
- J. Andreoni, Ragan Petrie
- Economics
- 1 July 2004
Laboratory researchers in economics assiduously protect the confidentiality of subjects. Why? Presumably because they fear that the social consequences of identifying subjects and their choices would… Expand
Farm Household Production Efficiency: Evidence from the Gambia
- Jean-Paul Chavas, Ragan Petrie, M. J. Roth
- Economics
- 1 February 2005
This article investigates the economic efficiency of farm households, with an application to The Gambia. The efficiency analysis is conducted not at the farm level but at the household level, thus… Expand
Beauty, gender and stereotypes : Evidence from laboratory experiments
- J. Andreoni, Ragan Petrie
- Economics
- 1 February 2008
The existence of a beauty premium in the labor market and the male-female wage gap suggests that appearance can matter in the real world. We explore beauty and gender in a public goods experiment and… Expand
The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children
- M. Castillo, P. Ferraro, J. Jordan, Ragan Petrie
- Economics
- 1 December 2011
We experimentally investigate the distribution of children's time preferences along gender and racial lines. We find that boys are more impatient than girls and black children are more impatient than… Expand
Learning from mistakes: What do inconsistent choices over risk tell us?
- S. Jacobson, Ragan Petrie
- Economics
- 19 February 2009
We implement a risk experiment that allows for judgment errors to investigate who makes mistakes and whether it matters. The experiments are conducted with a random sample of the adult population in… Expand
Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination
- M. Castillo, Ragan Petrie, M. Torero, L. Vesterlund
- Psychology, Economics
- 1 March 2012
We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market in Lima, Peru. Examining the entire path of negotiation we find that men face… Expand
What Do Bargainers' Preferences Look Like? Experiments with a Convex Ultimatum Game
- J. Andreoni, M. Castillo, Ragan Petrie
- Economics
- 1 May 2003
The ultimatum game, by its all-or-nothing nature, makes it difficult to discern what kind of preferences may be generating choices. We explore a game that convexifies the decisions, allowing us a… Expand
Discrimination in the lab: Does information trump appearance?
- Marco E. Castillo, Ragan Petrie
- Psychology, Computer Science
- Games Econ. Behav.
- 2010
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Estimating the Value of Water Use Permits: A Hedonic Approach Applied to Farmland in the Southeastern Us
- Ragan Petrie, Laura Taylor
- Economics
- 1 April 2006
In the State of Georgia, any agricultural producer who wishes to pump more than 100,000 gallons of water a day for crop irrigation is required to have an irrigation permit. The permit stays with the… Expand
The Economic Effects of Facebook
- R. Mosquera, Mofioluwasademi Odunowo, Trent McNamara, Xiongfei Guo, Ragan Petrie
- Psychology, Business
- 8 November 2018
Social media permeates many aspects of our lives, including how we connect with others, where we get our news and how we spend our time. Yet, we know little about the economic effects for users. In… Expand