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Campaign ending
Dear backers,In a few hours our campaign will be closed. Unfortunately, we did not succeed in raising the necessary funds for running the experiment at this time. We are planning to apply to tradit...
Equity rulz!
In a previous lab note we were mentioning that by eyeballing the chat between the donor and the beneficiaries in our pilot session, the main conclusion we could draw was that people care for equity...
The USAID fights fraud in aid programs
A report by the USAID Office of Inspector General dated July this year, shows the ongoing concern of the U.S. Agency to fight fraud, hence, the importance of our research project. A roundtable with...
Undetected fraud in foreign money can also be a matter of donor's interest
Our research question is motivated by the idea that prevention is cheaper and more effective than correction. Concerning fraud in foreign aid, we argued that correction is difficult due to the aud...
The Lab is booked!
We have booked the lab for the first 4 sessions in the week 27-30th of November at laboratory PAULA at the University of Passau. Then we will run the treatments with communication, while in Decembe...
To the importance of our research question
The following piece of news from last month speaks to how difficult it is to trace and prove fraud in foreign aid and even more difficult to recover the diverted money. Therefore, prevention seems ...
People like fairness: Insights from the Chat Communication
In the pilot session we tested the treatment in which the donor communicates freely, via a private chat window, with each of the providers in turn. This communication takes place prior to the donor...
Results from a pilot session
Prior to launching this study on experiment.com, we have conducted a pilot session with the FC treatment. The figure below shows the percent of the total group contributions in the maximum possible...
Experimental design and treatments
Experimental design and treatmentsThe experimental treatments aim at testing the potential of three institutions of funds allocation from a donor to the providers of increasing contributions to the...