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Identity, Homophily and In-Group Bias
Currarini, Sergio; Menge, Friederike - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
School of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus and Department of Economics (AE1), Maastricht University
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552188
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Predicting one Shot Play in 2x2 Games Using Beliefs Based on Minimax Regret
Gallice, Andrea - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
in one shot 2x2 matching pennies games. As a first step we axiomatically describe players’ beliefs. We find the minimax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385407
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Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior
Andor, Mark Andreas; Cox, James C.; Gerster, Andreas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate how locus of control beliefs - the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their … begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how locus of control beliefs serve as a weight placed on the returns from … in parliamentary elections, and to donate blood. Our results provide comprehensive evidence that locus of control beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362013
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889827
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Beliefs and truth-telling: A laboratory experiment
Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
’ first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust … believe the receiver expects them to tell the truth. We observe no such dependence on second-order beliefs in a payoff … equivalent game of matching pennies. Our results therefore indicate an impact of second-order beliefs as derived in models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942533
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274372
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839590
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Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes
Khaw, Mel Win; Li, Ziang; Woodford, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In an experiment that elicits subjects' willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on the magnitude and sign of the relative risk premium,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388772
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A Cognitive View of Policing
Dube, Oeindrila; MacArthur, Sandy Jo; Shah, Anuj K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What causes adverse policing outcomes, such as excessive uses of force and unnecessary arrests? Prevailing explanations focus on problematic officers or deficient regulations and oversight. Here, we introduce a new, overlooked perspective. We suggest that the cognitive demands inherent in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372408
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Experimental games on networks: Underpinnings of behavior and equilibrium selection
Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761741