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This survey explores the contributions of behavioral economics, laboratory experiments, and field experiments to our …, altruism, inequality aversion, and guilt aversion) from pledges of trust and from reciprocal behavior provides a foundation for … of theory and experiments that have identified trust and reciprocity in economics and human behavior. …
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Evidence suggests that whether or not people dislike lying is situation-dependent. We argue that the theory of simple guilt can accommodate this well.
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his real choice of effort in a gift exchange game, we implement four treatments in our experiments by varying two factors …
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Economists and psychologists have developed a variety of experimental methodologies to elicit and assess individual risk attitudes. Choosing which to utilize, however, is largely dependent on the question one wants to answer, as well as the characteristics of the sample population. The goal of...
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experiments, and recent research has shown the importance of identity in a wide array of economic environments. But predictions …
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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …
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different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...
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This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992809