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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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Reputation and Credit Market Formation: How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact

Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...

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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

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

Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage 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...

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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 …

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Pour Some Sugar in Me: Does Glucose Enrichment Improve Decision Making?

McElroy, Todd; Dickinson, David L.; Stroh, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

improve decision making on some tasks. To test our hypothesis we used a standardized decision inventory and measured response …

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Strategic Incomplete Contracts: Theory and Experiments

Erkal, Nisvan; Wu, Steven Y.; Roe, Brian E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

even costlessly verifiable terms. We then use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of the model. While it is …

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Sleepiness, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences

Castillo, Marco; Dickinson, David L.; Petrie, Ragan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the consistency and stability of individual risk preferences by manipulating cognitive resources. Participants are randomly assigned to an experiment session at a preferred time of day relative to their diurnal preference (circadian matched) or at a non-preferred time (circadian...

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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...

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