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Enforcement of contribution norms in public good games with heterogeneous populations

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2009

Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...

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Pension, fertility, and education

Meier, Volker (contributor); Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2005

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and education, we discuss internalization policies...

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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen

Büttner, Thiess - 2002

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Do well managed firms make better forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - 2022

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Gender differences in honesty : groups versus individuals

Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male...

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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment

Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

economics or business/management show more corrupt behavior than students studying to become economics school teachers, but the …

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Animal welfare and human ethics : a personality study

Albrecht, Konstanze; Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore, we elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct, and real setup: Subjects choose between intensive farming versus organic living conditions for a hen....

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Animal welfare and human ethics : a personality study

Albrecht, Konstanze; Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Szech, Nora - 2017

We elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct and real setup that allows us to separate genuine interest in animal welfare from confounding factors like advertisement, replacement arguments or image concerns. Subjects choose between intensive farming and organic living...

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