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Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - CESifo - 2013

and treat correlated information as independent. In consequence, people’s beliefs are excessively sensitive to well …-connected information sources, implying a pattern of “overshooting” beliefs. Additionally, in an experimental asset market, correlation …

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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014

We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify studentsf risk]taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona]Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first]year...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 2013

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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The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - CESifo - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...

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Free-Riding in the Lab and in the Field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - CESifo - 2011

To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We compare results within subjects. In the free-riding treatment,...

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Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes more important, open conflict becomes more likely...

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Reference Points and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - CESifo - 2009

A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...

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Curriculum and Ideology

Cantoni, Davide; Chen, Yuyu; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - CESifo - 2014

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students’ stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook …

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - CESifo - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field … influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others’ behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game … with a leader. We find that leaders strongly shape their followers’ initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds …

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Fairness Spillovers - The Case of Taxation

Cornelissen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; König, Tobias - CESifo - 2010

It is standardly assumed that individuals adjust to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other...

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