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On the Optimal Rate of Structural Adjustment

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982

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Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Fehr, Ernst; Powell, Michael; Wilkening, Tom - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms – which are based on off-equilibrium arbitration clauses that...

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Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

Morrison, William G.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model

Hizen, Yoichi; Kawata, Keisuke; Sasaki, Masaru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search …

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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program

Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics

van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...

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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires … used in the literature. Our results suggest that adding experimental periods in an experiment can substantially increase …

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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