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Haan, Marco; Kooreman, Peter; Riemersma, Tineke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we …

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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...

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Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting

Wu, Steven Y.; Roe, Brian E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use economic experiments to examine the nature of relational trading under a menu of incomplete contracts ranging from the repeat purchase mechanism of Klein and Leffler (1981) to highly incomplete contracts that are completely unenforceable by third-parties. Our results suggest that, with...

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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...

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Happiness and Productivity

Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …

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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach

Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent...

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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents’ declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital – trust and...

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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

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The Impact of Tax Knowledge and Budget Spending Influence on Tax Compliance

Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the impact of trust in authorities on tax compliance within a controlled laboratory setting. Embedded in two hypothetical tax systems with high and low power of authorities respectively, we gradually increase trust in authorities in form of tax knowledge about public expenditures...

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