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decisions are taken by teams, not individuals. 10 Each team in our experiment comes from a different fishing boat at Lake …-nudge increases cooperation by 14 and 16 percentage points for egalitarian and hierarchical 15 team decisions, respectively. Captains …
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uncertainty. Our findings imply that a unifying theory of social risk effects requires new explanations. …Anticipating "social risk", or risk caused by humans, affects decision-making differently from anticipating natural … risk. Drawing upon a large sample of the US population (n=3,982), we show that the phenomenon generalizes to risk …
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by a draw from an Ellsberg urn. In a within-subject experiment, subjects make decisions in three different bargaining … mechanism, which is in line with theory. Free format bargaining yields a surprising number of disagreements, which are not …
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experiment we let subjects choose how often they want to play a risky skill game. We find that women play only half as many …
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The exogenous manipulation of choice architectures to achieve social ends ('social nudges') can raise problems of effectiveness and ethicality because it favors group outcomes over individual outcomes. One answer is to give individuals control over their nudge ('self-nudge'), but the trade-offs...
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Most people tend to equate success with merit, a tendency that is particularly pronounced among conservatives. However, in practice it is exceedingly difficult to discern the relative impact of luck and effort to economic success. Based on a large-scale online study that samples the general US...
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We present the results of an experiment where a random subset of the participants in the Bundesbank's household panel …
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variation, the probit-based model can better fit actual choice data from an existing laboratory experiment, especially if there …
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. The utility function captures the diminishing marginal utility of money with income and risk aversion over gambles. This … reflects individuals' preferences more accurately, and can be applied to policies that involve risk. In addition, if social … of mortality risk. The United States Government values lives equally in calculating the welfare losses from mortality …
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randomized survey experiment, we inform respondents from India of their official income rank and elicit preferences for air … survey experiment demonstrates the causality of the relationship using a novel treatment that exogenously shifts relative …
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