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Chapter 3. Preferences for Status : Evidence and Economic Implications
Heffetz, Ori; Frank, Robert H. - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 69-91). 2011
This chapter brings together some of the recent empirical and experimental evidence regarding preferences for social status. While briefly reviewing evidence from different literatures that is consistent with the existence of preferences for status, we pay special attention to experimental work...
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Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Guaranteed Income
Miller, Sarah; Rhodes, Elizabeth; Bartik, Alexander W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by studying a randomized … experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, with 2,000 control …-sectional correlation between income and health lies well outside our confidence intervals. We also find that the transfer did not improve …
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Inequality and incentives with societal other-regarding preferences
Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 188 (2021), pp. 1298-1324
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Can money buy friends? : Evidence from a natural experiment
Cuong Viet Nguyen - In: European economic review : EER 136 (2021), pp. 1-22
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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015 - Revised version, May 2015
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...
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Herding cats : future professionals' expectations of attractive employers
Bullinger, Bernadette; Treisch, Corinna - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 29 (2015) 2, pp. 149-177
Professionals, like business consultants, have been described as crucial for modern knowledge-intensive organizations, but they are not always thought to be easy to manage or to attract. This might be due to a need for autonomy and commitment that is aimed more at the profession than at their...
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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty
Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013
We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal identity, while treating the others as the control group. The...
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Chapter 3. Contemporary Experimental Aesthetics: Procedures and Findings
Locher, Paul J. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 49-80). 2014
An aesthetic experience with visual art and the resulting perceived ‘beauty’ of it depend on a complex interaction among characteristics of the art object, the observer, and the physical, social, and historical contexts in which the experience takes place. Experimental aesthetics is devoted...
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Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior
Haushofer, Johannes; Lowes, Sara; Musau, Abednego; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
While observational evidence suggests that people behave more prosocially towards members of their own ethnic group, many laboratory studies fail to find this effect. One possible explanation is that coethnic preference only emerges during times of stress. To test this hypothesis, we...
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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control
Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people's awareness of their limited self-control. We find that people overestimate past gym attendance, and that larger overestimation of past attendance is associated with (i) more...
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