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Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - 2012

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals' information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and find...

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Social welfare versus inequality concerns in an incomplete contract experiment

Faravelli, Marco; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

We study a situation where two players first choose a sharing rule, then invest into a joint production process, and then split joint benefits. We investigate how social preferences determine investments. In our experiment we find that even the materially disadvantaged player cares more for...

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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A parametric analysis of prospect theory's functionals for the general population

Booij, Adam S.; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; van de … - 2009

This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability weighting function for different positive and negative monetary outcomes, using a representative sample of N = 1935 from the general public. The results confirm earlier findings in the...

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Preferences for consistency

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011

This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior allows them to signal personal and intellectual strength. We then present three experiments that study...

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Welfare Stigma in the Lab: Evidence of Social Signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...

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Too Lucky to be True - Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017

inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of ….e., participants who never redistribute. Without cheating opportunities, libertarian fairness views dominate, while egalitarian views …

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Are groups more rational than individuals? A review of interactive decision making in groups

Kugler, Tamar; Kausel, Edgar E.; Kocher, Martin G. - 2012

Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic...

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The tradeoff between redistribution and effort: Evidence from the field and from the lab

Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012

Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...

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