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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761956
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Immigrant Assimilation, Trust and Social Capital
Cox, James C.; Orman, Wafa Hakim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
-generation immigrants and native-born Americans as a measure of immigrant assimilation. We also survey subjects in order to relate trusting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560396
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Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703605