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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
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Happiness and Productivity
Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …
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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent...
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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures
Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents’ declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital – trust and...
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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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