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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 sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959794
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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
working conditions causes workers to quit at more similar times. When, and only when, communication is allowed, workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279313
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Traits, Imitation, and Evolutionary Dynamics
Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this article, a modelling framework for the information transmission between agents in an evolutionary game setting is proposed. Agents observe traits which reflect past and present behaviour and success of other agents. If agents imitate more successful agents based on these traits, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822056
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182
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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279288
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Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases
Oechssler, Jörg; Roider, Andreas; Schmitz, Patrick W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762419
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Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie Claire; Xu, Hui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711936
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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment
Cheung, Stephen L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717460
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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Rützler, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
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The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us to identify the structural parameters of a simple (α,β,δ) intertemporal utility function for...
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