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rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions – dismissal barriers, and bonus pay – affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
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to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …
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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
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experimentally the behavioral forces stipulated in their theory. The evidence confirms the model's prediction that there is a … with established behavioral concepts, they cannot easily be explained by existing theories. The experiment appears to …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in …
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …
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