foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …

to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …-subject variance is substantially lower than when the same payment scheme is imposed. Mainly based on risk aversion, sorting is …

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both …