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Can Wages Signal Kindness?
Arbak, Emrah; Kranich, Laurence - HAL - 2005
We model the interaction between an employer and a worker with interdependent preferences in a simple one-shot production process. In particular, we assume that the worker becomes kinder if she senses that her employer is an altruist. We assume that intentions are private information. Thus, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793118
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2011
paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme … the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325706
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Gender matching and competitiveness: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2013
This paper experimentally investigates if and how people's competitiveness depends on their own gender and on the … gender of people with whom they interact. Participants are given information about the gender of the co-participant they are … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739726
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior - Experimental Evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - HAL - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790516
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - HAL - 2005
such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792259
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Dumbing down rational players : learning and teaching in an experimental game
Terracol, Antoine; Vaksmann, Jonathan - HAL - 2007
This paper uses experimental data to examine the existence of a teaching strategy among bounded rational players. If players realize that their own actions modify their opponent's beliefs and actions, they might play certain actions to this specific end ; and forego immediate payoffs if the...
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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - HAL - 2013
How far can the media protect or undermine democratic institutions in unconsolidated democracies, and how persuasive can they be in ensuring public support for dictator's policies? We study this question in the context of Germany between 1929 and 1939. Using geographical and temporal variation...
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Altruism in Networks
Bourlès, Renaud; Bramoullé, Yann - HAL - 2013
We provide the first theoretical analysis of altruism in networks. Agents are embedded in a fixed, weighted network and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933881
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Préferences psychologiques et nouvelle économie politique
Billot, Antoine; Marlats, Chantal - HAL - 2009
First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … collective impact of altruism, social loyalty, intrinsic reciprocity and so forth . …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930212
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Polluting Industrialization
Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011
link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325714