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Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?

Krupka, Erin L.; Weber, Roberto A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on … the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We … demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a simple model combining concern for norm-compliance with utility for money …

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The Focusing and Informational Effects of Norms on Pro-Social Behavior

Krupka, Erin; Weber, Roberto A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions … derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a "focusing"influence, whereby norms only … and thus demonstrates a direct effect of norms on behavior. …

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Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...

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Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström’s career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents’ unknown ability and the effort they choose. Before making second-period wage offers firms are informed...

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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Holmström’s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision...

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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Friendship in a Public Good Experiment

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 know to be friends. Other groups exclusively consist of students that we know not to be friends, and that are mere classmates. We find that ‘friends’ contribute more to the...

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Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets

Roe, Brian E.; Wu, Steven Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

selfish or cooperative using simple social preference games and then test for behavioral differences between the two types in …

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Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid: An Experimental Study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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Can Endogenous Group Formation Prevent Coordination Failure? A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Raab, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, independently of the initial strategy profile. In the experimental part we test this prediction. Our results show that the accuracy …

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