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We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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Betrayal aversion has been operationalized as the evidence that subjects demand a higher risk premium to take social risks compared to natural risks. This evidence has been first shown by Bohnet and Zeckhauser (2004) using an adaptation of the Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism (BDM, Becker et al....
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over-estimation of social preferences in the student population. -- methodology ; selection bias ; laboratory experiment …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 …
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evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine …
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We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to …
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what they think they are tasked with in the experiment. Adding a second auction that has a context drastically reduces the …
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repeated public goods experiments. We find that belief accuracy is significantly higher when beliefs are incentivized. The … so in the latter half of the experiment. This result contradicts Croson (2000). We discuss the implications of our … results for the design of experiments. -- Incentives ; beliefs ; experiments ; public goods …
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questions in the case of finitely repeated public goods experiments. We find that belief accuracy is significantly higher when … beliefs at all. We discuss the implications of our results for the design of public good experiments. -- Incentives ; beliefs …
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voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust … positive effect on effort only under non-incentive compatible contracts. -- principal-agent games ; gift-exchange experiments … ; incomplete contracts, explicit incentives ; implicit incentives ; repeated games ; separability ; experiments …
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learning. -- voluntary contribution mechanism ; public goods experiments ; learning ; limited information ; confusion …
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