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Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...

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A Theoretical Model of the Chinese Labor Market

Fields, Gary S.; Song, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of various labor market policies on economic well-being. Two key features of the model are a segmented labor market involving three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private...

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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm … one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Additionally, we find that even in …

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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

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Helping in Teams

Danilov, Anastasia; Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen … (1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage …

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Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior are kept constant across all games. Givers maximize material payoffs by pretending to be fair when...

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Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …

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Market Design and Moral Behavior

Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Stefan, Matthias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the …

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Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and …

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Dishonesty under Scrutiny

van de Ven, Jeroen; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...

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