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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment …
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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 …
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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...
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Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
operations. The empirical findings support the model's prediction and demonstrate that the theory fairly describes the pattern of …
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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals
Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis: Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Kocher, Martin G.; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage …-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are …. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
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Market Design and Moral Behavior
Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Stefan, Matthias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the …
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Role Selection and Team Performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...
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Lying and Team Incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...
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