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coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …
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schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. …
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In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements, and participants have either complete or...
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we … report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …
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We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …
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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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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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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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operations. The empirical findings support the model's prediction and demonstrate that the theory fairly describes the pattern of …
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