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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions: What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
disciplines: risk aversion, conscientiousness, and high self-control make criminal behavior less likely. Our results illustrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884197
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Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Andersson, Lisa; Martinsson, Peter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is modified to include multiplicity of reference groups. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884230
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Social Comparisons in Wage Delegation: Experimental Evidence
Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Lacomba, Juan A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This article examines whether social comparisons have behavioral effects on workers' performance when a firm can choose workers' wages or let them choose their own. Firms can delegate the wage decision to neither, one or both workers in the firm. We vary the information workers receive, finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884248
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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884260
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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