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Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is inﬂuenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show that (a) the GaleShapley...

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Affirmative Action through Minority Reserves: An Experimental Study on School Choice

Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. We study in the laboratory the effect of minority reserves on the outcomes of two prominent matching mechanisms, the Gale-Shapley and the Top Trading Cycles mechanisms. Our first...

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Organisational structure, communication and group ethics

Ellman, Matthew; Pezanis-Christou, Paul - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

This paper investigates experimentally how organisational decision processes affect the moral motivations of actors inside a firm that must forego profits to reduce harming a third party. In a "vertical" treatment, one insider unilaterally sets the harm-reduction strategy; the other can only...

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Are Self-regarding Subjects More Rational?

Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Through an experiment, we investigate how the level of rationality relates to concerns for equality and efficiency …

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The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament

Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009

Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Critics argue that they distort incentives, resulting in lower individual performance, and that the selected pool of...

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Not Just Like Starting Over: Leadership and Revivification of Cooperation in Groups

Brandts, Jordi; Rott, Christina; Solà, Carles - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how, after a history of decay, cooperation in a repeated voluntary …

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On the External Validity of Social- Preference Games: A Systematic Lab-Field Study

Galizzi, Matteo M.; Navarro-Martínez, Daniel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

We present a lab-field experiment designed to assess systematically the external validity of social preferences …

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Endogenous Depth of Reasoning

Alaoui, Larbi; Penta, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

's predictions with an experiment. We administer different treatments that vary beliefs over payoffs and opponents, as well as … beliefs over opponents' beliefs. The results of this experiment, which are not accounted for by current models of reasoning in … games, strongly support our theory. Our approach therefore serves as a novel, unifying framework of strategic thinking in …

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On Punishment and Well-being

Brandts, Jordi; Rivas, María Fernanda - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007

experiment to study the conjecture that an environment with stronger punishment possibilities leads to higher material but lower …

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Legitimacy, Communication and Leadership in the Turnaround Game

Brandts, Jordi; Cooper, David J.; Weber, Roberto A. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We study the effectiveness of leaders for inducing coordinated organizational change to a more efficient equilibrium, i.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of randomly selected and elected leaders. While all...

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