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Evaluating the effectiveness of education in zoos 2013-2017
This data was collected at a single zoo site in the UK. The site was a combined theme park and zoo. Data was collected to investigate the effectiveness of education in zoos. The... -
Survey of financial capability of Indonesian undergraduates 2015
This data comes from doctoral research carried out by Irni Johan at the University of Birmingham as part of a study to measure the financial capability of Indonesian... -
Global income inequality measures and bibliography of household surveys, 1880...
Dataset consisting of inequality measures for 46 nation states and a global bibliography of all known household expenditure surveys covering the period roughly 1880-1960. Each... -
Farm surveys from experimental intervention in agriculture in the Indian stat...
Data submitted is based on farm surveys among 660 farmers in the Siriguppa taluk of Bellary district in the Indian state of Karnataka. The data includes four waves of surveys... -
Pilot study of an online information resource for family carers of people dia...
Data from a pilot study to assess an online program of information and support for informal (family) carers of people with young onset dementia (YOD), with onset before the age... -
Inside the production function, the effect of financial contracts on growing ...
The data files contain data from interviews with Ugandan small business owners that are part of a randomized experiment evaluating the effect of loan contract structure on... -
Discretionary sanctions and rewards in the repeated inspection game
We experimentally investigate a repeated “inspection game” where, in the stage game, an employee can either work or shirk and an employer simultaneously chooses to inspect or... -
Cooperation in small groups: The effect of group size
We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments, we study four- and eight-person groups in high and low... -
Identifying social norms using coordination games: Spectators vs. stakeholders
We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately from dictator,... -
Does consultation improve decision-making?
This paper reports an experiment designed to test whether prior consultation within a group affects subsequent individual decision-making in tasks where demonstrability of... -
Incentives, expertise, and medical decisions: Testing the robustness of natur...
The natural frequency effect (NF effect)—whereby framing health risks using information presented as natural frequencies (NFs), instead of conditional probabilities (CPs),... -
Complicity without connection or communication, experimental data
We use a novel laboratory experiment involving a die rolling task embedded within a coordination game to investigate whether complicity can emerge when decision-making is... -
How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised)... -
Understanding Society: Commuting and wellbeing
The Commuting and Wellbeing study involved an analysis of the first six waves of data released from Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study). The Commuting... -
On the origin of utility, weighting, and discounting functions: How they get ...
We present a theoretical account of the origin of the shapes of utility, probability weighting, and temporal discounting functions. In an experimental test of the theory, we... -
Survey of the impacts of an environmental intervention on household wealth, l...
This dataset is part of the Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme. These data represent the central quantitative datasets from a mixed method,... -
Information feedback and contest structure in rent-seeking games
We investigate the effects of information feedback in rent-seeking games with two different contest structures. In the share contest a contestant receives a share of the rent... -
The average laboratory samples a population of 7,300 Amazon Mechanical Turk w...
Using capture-recapture analysis we estimate the effective size of the active Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) population that a typical laboratory can access to be about 7,300... -
Incentives for accurate diagnosis: Improving health care quality in Mali
This data contains individual patient data from a randomized intervention study collected at 60 CSComs (public health clinics) in Bamako, Mali. We enrolled all patients with... -
An experiment on individual ‘parochial altruism’ revealing no connection betw...
Is parochial altruism an attribute of individual behavior? This is the question we address with an experiment. We examine whether the individual pro-sociality that is revealed...