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-down auditing using data from a specifically designed bribery lab experiment.  We compare "public officials" tendency to ask for …
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We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with …
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Many interactive environments can be represented as games, but they are so large and complex that individual players are in the dark about others' actions and the payoff structure.  This paper analyzes learning behavior in such 'black box' environments, where players' only source of information...
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, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment.  These findings …
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Although it is well known that trust is an important component of the fulfilment of incomplete contracts, less is known regarding how robust it is to past experiences.
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run an experiment in which: `private citizens` have to decide whether and how much to offer `public servants` in exchange …
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Using a simple one-shot bribery game, we find evidence of a negative externality effect and a framing effect.  When the losses suffered by third parties due to a bribe being offered and accepted are high and the game is presented as a petty corruption scenario instead of in abstract terms...
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This paper tests the external validity of a simple Dictator Game as a laboratory analogue for a naturally occurring policy-relevant decision-making context.  In Uganda, where teacher absenteeism is a problem, primary school teachers' allocations to parents in a Dictator Game are positively but...
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Using a specially designed lab-type experiment conducted in the field, we compare the willingness of head teachers …
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this result with a laboratory experiment.  We find that, when the problem of product market opportunism is moderate, i …
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