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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two necessary features that explain the origin of the...
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Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …
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points. The implications of this model are tested in an experiment in which participants have to make a consumption choice …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In …
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maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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is little evidence of learning over the 40 matches of the experiment. …
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period under delayed resolution (which involved two days). Affective traits and risk attitudes were measured through a web …-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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