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inequality aversion in ex post questionnaire responses, even though such differences are not enough to fully capture our main …
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We document that being spectators (no effect on personal payoffs) and, to a lesser extent, stakeholders without information on relative payoffs, induces subjects who can choose distribution criteria after task performance to prefer rewarding talent (vis à vis effort, chance or strict...
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We investigate the heterogeneous effects of daily particular matter (PM) pollution on Italian hospitalizations and their costs. We exploit public transportation strikes as plausibly-exogenous shocks in PM. We find that young individuals, an arguably healthy age group, exhibit economically...
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A health care system is efficient when an increase in spending results in significant improvements in the health of a … population. We test the relative efficiency of public and private health care spending in reducing infant and child mortality …, significantly correlated with a lower mortality and significantly more efficient in reducing mortality than private health care …
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We use experimental data from the “vote with the wallet” multiplayer prisoner's dilemma to investigate with a finite mixture approach the effect of a responsible purchase on players' satisfaction. We find clear-cut evidence of heterogeneity of preferences with two groups of players that...
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experiments on altruistic, time and risk preferences on a sample of Sri Lankan microfinance borrowers affected/unaffected by the …
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We simulate in a randomised lab experiment the effect of Cash Mobs on consumers' behaviour in an original variant of the multiplayer Prisoner's dilemma called Vote-with-the-wallet Game (VWG). The effect is modelled in a sequential game with/without an environmental frame in which a subset of...
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This paper focuses on a bargaining experiment in which the privately informed seller of a company sends a value message to the uninformed potential buyer who then proposes a price for acquiring the company. Participants are constantly in the role of either seller or buyer and interact over 30...
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Similar to Fischbacher and Gächter (2010) we try to understand and explain the motivation of participants when contributing to a public good. In the Hybrid Public Good experiment each of two interacting contributors chooses an independent contribution level and three adjusted contribution...
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We use the Vote-with-the-Wallet game (VWG) to model socially or environmentally responsible consumption, an increasingly relevant but still under-researched phenomenon. Based on a theoretical model outlining game equilibria and the parametric interval of the related multiplayer prisoners'...
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