Experimental Design

This paper explores the cognitive biases that influence human understanding and adoption of AI technology. Through experimental studies, the research highlights the phenomenon of "Human Projection," where individuals overestimate AI's …

feature in predicting AI performance. 4.1 Experimental Design We ask participants to predict an agent’s … examine the answer. 12Figure 2: Flowchart of Experimental Design Consent Familiarize Humans Draw 10 tasks … simplifying assumptions to be consistent with our experimental design. We assume the principal uses the same subjective … be binary. This simplification mirrors our experimental design which studies inferences from errors. Let … intuition for this idea, which we test in experimental design, consider the following example question: …

We combine societal-level institutional measures from 51 countries between 1996 and 2017 with individual decision-making outcome data from 1,126 laboratory experiments in six meta-analyses to evaluate the effects of within-country …

of parameters that can changed within an experimental design. Despite these limitations, studies with … affecting the cost-benefit trade-offs within the experimental design. Additionally, every laboratory experiment …

We designed and conducted three randomized control trials in partnership with a large biopharmaceutical company operating over 160 plasma donation centers, with the aim of promoting sustainable behaviors in a …

participating in the pilot studies from the RCT. 2.2 Experimental Design The intervention at treated centers comprised …

This paper shows a cascading mechanism through which international trade-induced deforestation results in a decline of health outcomes in cities distant from where trade activities occur. We examine Brazil, which …

Building on this data, we develop a quasi-experimental design to estimate the impact of forest losses …

We study the direct and indirect effects of randomized entry. In partnership with the two largest service providers in Ghana, we implement a three-step design that randomizes the entry of …

Section III contains the description of our experimental design and data. Section IV presents our main results …

The World Health Organization says smoking is the leading cause of global preventable death, killing up to 8 million people prematurely every year—far more than die in wars and conflicts. …

experiment is that when somebody comes in with an experimental design, they can be randomly assigned either to …

As central banks, including the European Central Bank (ECB), adopt climate-related responsibilities, gauging public support becomes essential. Drawing on a June 2023 Bundesbank household survey, we find that 69% of …

We propose a theory of the complexity of economic decisions. Leveraging a macroeconomic framework of production functions, we conceptualize the mind as a cognitive economy, where a task's complexity is …

contains a more detailed discussion of the experimental design and findings. 5 Complexity of Discrete Choice …

the partners' own efforts and those of other donors? The priorities of the German interventions correspond largely The German interventions are largely complementary to the with the priorities of the …

documents and have had an effect. In a quasi-experimental design, matching strategies were coded and qualitatively …

We conducted an artifactual field experiment with human resource recruiters in Ecuador to investigate the extent to which migrants are penalized in the labor market. Human resource recruiters were hired …

investigate in the following sections. 3 Experimental Design The experiment was implemented in 2022 in … method used to hire them.11 3.2 Data and Experimental Design The experiment was carried out using an online … 15preference for native candidates. The experimental design closely resembled real-world hiring tasks …