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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
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to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …
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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
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We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …
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-exchange experiment, the employer can express respect by giving the employee costly symbolic rewards after observing his level of effort …. This experiment sheds light on the extent to which symbolic rewards are used, how they affect employees’ further effort …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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