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Dohmen, Thomas; Altmann, Steffen; Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that "fairer" players should trust less.

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Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences

Corazzini, Luca; Filippin, Antonio; Vanin, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design allows disentangling the pharmacological effects of alcohol intoxication from those mediated by...

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Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation

Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...

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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …

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Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well … the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we investigate the self-selection process of … monetary reward associated with participation in experiments; or appealing to the importance of helping research; or both. We …

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Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

are the ones most likely to select into experiments. At the same time, we find a large difference between the self …

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

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Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology

Goerg, Sebastian; Kube, Sebastian; Zultan, Ro'i - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...

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Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...

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Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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