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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?
Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from … competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082535
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Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789080
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791668
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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee under Endogenous Supervision
Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791680
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Information Gatekeepers: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D; Palfrey, Thomas R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
is little evidence of learning over the 40 matches of the experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528540
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Investment, Resolution of Risk, and the Role of Affect
Hopfensitz, Astrid; Krawczyk, Michal; Winden, Frans … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124205
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Network Structure and Strategic Investments: An Experimental Analysis
Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136539
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Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
direction, we have conducted a laboratory experiment with 490 participants. We consider "cooperative" investments that directly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067500
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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals
Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145435
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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations
Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We analyse an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114368