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Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets: An Experimental Analysis

Dickinson, David L.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

productivity. This paper reports results from controlled laboratory experiments designed to study second-moment statistical … consistent with loss-aversion. …

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Cognitive Dissonance, Pessimism, and Behavioral Spillover Effects

Dickinson, David L.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and …

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Pour Some Sugar in Me: Does Glucose Enrichment Improve Decision Making?

McElroy, Todd; Dickinson, David L.; Stroh, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In the current study we explore whether enriching the brain's supply of glucose will improve the quality and speed of decision making. Prior research shows that glucose enrichment supports cognition and more recent research has shown it can improve decision making on some tasks. To test our...

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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?

Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...

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The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …

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The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, verifiability fails to yield efficiency in experiments with endogenous prices. We identify heterogeneous distributional preferences … as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …-standard distributional preferences, among which efficiency-loving and inequality aversion are most frequent. We discuss implications for …

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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...

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