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We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another …. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and …
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among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns … concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and …
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paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. Our findings provide evidence of a link between perceived unfairness and … health, and fairness of pay. …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … protocol (Holt and Laury, 2002). In our experiment, participants earn and retain money for a week before using it in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on …
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about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations (reminding participants about their answer to the fairness question and publicly … there is a social component (i.e., reporting of aggregate answers). When a participant's answer to the fairness question is …
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The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search …
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consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions … mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
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Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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