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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control

Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to...

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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...

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Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Filippin, Antonio; Guala, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups …

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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …

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