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How lotteries in school choice help to level the playing field

Basteck, Christian; Klaus, Bettina; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018

equilibrium for the immediate acceptance mechanism. This finds support in the experiment. Moreover, the lottery quota leads to …

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Costly information acquisition in centralized matching markets

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea; Pan, Siqi - 2021

Every year during school and college admissions, students and their parents devote considerable time and effort to acquiring costly information about their own preferences. In a market where students are ranked by universities based on exam scores, we explore ways to reduce wasteful information...

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Self-confidence and unraveling in matching markets

Dargnies, Marie-Pierre; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, … - 2017

.e., underconfident agents are more likely to accept early offers than overconfident agents. The experiment identifies a behavioral …

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Peer effects of ambition

Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana - 2019

Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...

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Experiments on matching markets : a survey

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea - 2019

The paper surveys the experimental literature on matching markets. It covers house allocation, school choice, and two-sided matching markets such as college admissions. The main focus of the survey is on truth-telling and strategic manipulations by the agents, on the stability and efficiency of...

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Fairness in markets and market experiments

Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018

and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates … to preferences for fair trade products before and after the market experiment. We find that the willingness to buy at a … laboratory experiment and with whether the participants are willing to pay a positive fair trade premium, elicited at the end of …

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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?

Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2020

To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...

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The endowment effect in the general population

Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022

We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...

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Fairness in matching markets : experimental evidence

König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023

We investigate fairness preferences in matching mechanisms using a spectator design. Participants choose between the Boston mechanism or the serial dictatorship mechanism (SD) played by others. In our setup, the Boston mechanism generates justified envy, while the strategy-proof SD ensures...

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