Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 700
Cover Image
Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions: What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548714
Cover Image
"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371862
Cover Image
Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527324
Cover Image
In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno; Ule, Aljaz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by allowing for agents with lower linking costs or higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703123
Cover Image
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283571
Cover Image
Stability of Time Preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615447
Cover Image
Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822243
Cover Image
Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703785
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700904
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822863