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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor income (wage) taxes. We construct an environment in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this experimental framework to test whether a labor...
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to pervade the economic and social life rendering strategic interactions with artificial agents more and more common. At the same time, experimental economic research has increasingly employed computer players to advance our understanding of strategic...
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obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …
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-nudge interventions worked. A follow-up experiment reveals the reason for these convincing null-effects: the information norm-nudges did …
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News reports and communication are inherently constrained by space, time, and attention. As a result, news sources often condition the decision of whether to share a piece of information on the similarity between the signal and the prior belief of the audience, which generates a sample selection...
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the first part, we compare women's to men's deceptive behavior using data from an incentivized income reporting experiment … in which lies can be detected in the course of an audit. Between the three treatments of that experiment, (i) the degree …
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This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment …
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external factors if they fail. They are too easily dissatisfied with their environment, which leads them to experiment in …
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