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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in … their own schedule also perform significantly worse. Finally, our results do not support the stereotype that women are … better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …

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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to seek Further Challenges

Buser, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...

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What Simon says

Heukelom, Floris - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper provides an overview of the work of Herbert Simon and his ideas about rational decision making. By his own standards, Simon is an economist who works in the tradition of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall. The central theme in Simon’s research is how human beings organize themselves in...

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Networks and Collective Action

Flores, Ramon; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines; Molina, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Social Networks (2012). Vol. 34(4), pages 161-179. This paper proposes a new measure for a group's ability to lead society to adopt their standard of behavior, which in particular takes account of the time the group takes to convince the whole...

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On The Relevance Of Irrelevant Information

Parakhonyak, Alexei - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random attributes with somejoint probability distribution. I consider seemingly unimportant changesin this distribution, i.e. changes which neither affect expected utility norits variance....

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The Origin of Prospect Theory, or Testing the Intuitive Statistician

Heukelom, Floris - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

The origin of prospect theory is the desire to test the intuitive statistician in the real world. The development of this theory by the cognitive psychologists Kahneman and Tversky can be traced to the formers work in cognitive psychophysics, in which deviations from average behavior are termed...

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Are Economic Agents Successful Optimizers? An Analysis through Service Strategy in Tennis

Klaasen, Franc J.G.M.; Magnus, Jan R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

inefficiency. The inefficiency regarding winning a point on service is on average at least 1.1% for men and 2.0% for women, leading … to a possible increase of income for the efficient player of 18.7% for men and 32.8% for women. We use these findings to …

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Measuring the Rebound Effect with Micro Data

Borger, Bruno de; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We provide estimates of the rebound effect for car transport in Denmark, using a rich data set with individual household data on car use, fuel efficiency, and car as well as household characteristics. A demand model is estimated in first differences; the availability of households in the sample...

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A Theory of Procedurally Rational Choice: Optimization without Evaluation

Ficco, Stefano; Karamychev, Vladimir; Reeven, Peran van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This paper analyses the behavior of an individual who wants to maximize his utility function, but he is not able to evaluate it. There are many ways to choose a single alternative from a given set. We show that a unique utility maximizing procedure exists. Choices induced by this optimal...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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