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We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …-strategic uncertainty and for beliefs on others' competitiveness and ability. Social image matters, as evidenced by the fact that seniors …
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, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly … more likely to enter competition in the presence of strategic uncertainty when they expect competitive entries from others …
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the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals … update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search … faced with ambiguity over wage distributions. …
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Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We contrasted three ways of rewarding participants in a real-effort experiment in which individuals had to...
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …
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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …
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mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …
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