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Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … for the research methodology of our science and how it is understood by current and former students. …
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States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a …, we observe a large difference between self-selected college students and self-selected adults: the students appear …
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a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of …
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important factor for selection into various career paths. In a sample of 711 first-year students we examine whether there are … confidence measure: While Political Science students exhibit the highest confidence levels, students of Humanities range at the … other end of the scale. This may have important implications for subsequent earnings and/or professions students select …
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Recent work in experimental economics on the effectiveness of rewards and punishments for promoting cooperation mainly examines decentralized incentive systems where all group members can reward and/or punish one another. Many self-organizing groups and societies, however, concentrate the power...
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The "grammar of trust" is one the most explored loci in game theory and behavioural economics. However, still much needs to be understood about the nature of trust in non-enforceable, personalised interactions, in markets and within organizations. This experimental study aims at contributing to...
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conduct a laboratory experiment where firms decide only about their production levels first, and the information they receive …
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choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
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