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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...

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Theft and Deterrence

Harbaugh, William T.; Mocan, Naci; Visser, Michael S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our design allows exogenous variation in the rewards of crime, and the penalty and probability of...

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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China …

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A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

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

power of the test and show that the magnitude of gender differences, although significant, is economically unimportant. We …

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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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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Rützler, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …

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