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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884157
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Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults
Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777146
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Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards
Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we investigate the self-selection process of potential subjects into the subject pool. We alter the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960100
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Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea
Kim, Byung-Yeon; Choi, Syngjoo; Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity … to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students …. Experimental behavior and support for institutions differ substantially between and within groups. North Korean refugees prefer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688392
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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory: On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure
Sheremeta, Roman M.; Wu, Steven Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646321
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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …
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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...
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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884260
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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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