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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884197
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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884374
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Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge of the game structure and feedback about choices in the previous period, we run treatments (i) without feedback about previous play, (ii) with no information about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822932
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Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a … real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884214
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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822405
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Social Networks
de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558948
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and … disciplines: risk aversion, conscientiousness, and high self-control make criminal behavior less likely. Our results illustrate …
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