“Rule-based Behavior, Punishment and Long Run Cooperation,” Diego Aycinena, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Columbia; Praveen Kujal, Middlesex University, UK

“Monetary Networks,”Edoardo Gallo, University of Cambridge; Maria Bigoni, University of Bologna; Gabriele Camera, Chapman University and University of Bologna

“Potential Entry and Heterogeneity in Sequential Contests,” John D. McMahan, University of Tennessee; Scott Gilpatric, University of Tennessee

“Does Income Mobility Predict Preferences for Income Redistribution?” Bradley Ruffle, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada; Tongzhe Li, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

“Advice and its Impact on Social Learning in Developing Countries,” Marie Clair Villeval, University of Lyon, France; Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Australia; Maitra, Pushkar, Monash University; Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

To learn more about the grants, visit the IFREE Small Grants Awarded page.

• “Beyond Dominant Strategy Mechanism Design: Is Strategic Simplicity Good Enough?”Ahrash Dianat and Mikhail Freer, University of Essex, UK
• “Anchor or Asset? Reporting External Obligation.” Laura Razzolini (University of Alabama), Shakun Mago (University of Richmond) and Jennifer Pate (Loyola Marymount University)
• “The Effect of Seed Money and Matching Gifts in Fundraising: A Lab Experiment.” Piruz Saboury, Silvana Krasteva and Marco Palma, Texas A&M University
• “Social Signaling: A Study in Welfare Stigma.” Natalia Valdez Gonzalez and Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University
• “Competition In Information: An Experimental Study of Bayesian Persuasion in a Search Environment.” Daniel Woods and Tim Cason, Purdue University
• “Natural Resource Windfalls and Demands for Government Accountability: Evidence from the Lab.” James Alexander and James Murphy (University of Alaska, Anchorage) and Maros Servatka (Macquarie Graduate School of Managemeny

To learn more about the grants, visit the IFREE Small Grants Awarded page.

A study by IFREE Grant Recipients, Colin Camerer et al., shows that increased testosterone levels in men increases the preference for luxury and status symbol goods.

Read the article in Nature Communications: Single-dose testosterone administration increases men’s preference for status goods. The research was funded in part by IFREE.

We are excited to announce that IFREE have funded six new grants that will support exciting research!

• “Twice Losers: how the shadow of cheating affects tax behaviors and norms,” Michela Boldrini, University of Bologna
• “Ours, not yours: earned property rights, collective action and deterrence in CPRs,” Javier E. Portillo. Birmingham-Southern College
• “The Effect of Ineffectiveness: Donor and labor response to information regarding microcredit ineffectiveness,” Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• “An Experimental Test of The Commodity Pricing Model with Storage,” Katerina Sherstyuk and Michael J. Roberts, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
• “How to design corporate prediction markets? A lab-experimental study,” Christoph Siemroth, University of Essex
• “The Hidden Advantage of Promises: Pareto Improvements in a Gift-Exchange Game,” Peilu Zhang, Texas A&M AgriLife Research

To learn more about the grants, visit the IFREE Small Grants Awarded page.