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Competition and the Role of Group Identity
Cornaglia, Francesca - 2019
The emergence of competition is a defining aspect of human nature and characterizes many important social environments. However, its relationship with how social groups are formed has received little attention. We design an experiment to analyze how individuals' willingness to compete is...
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? An information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when …
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Running the U.S. Economy at Full Throttle is a Stressful Variant of Capitalism
Komlos, John - 2022
mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic …. Stress is the biological reaction to external stimuli that threatens the self-preservation instinct of a human organism. The … stress was generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, by the highest level of inequality among rich countries …
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Partnership, gender roles and the well-being cost of unemployment
2012
We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we...
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Bribing the Self
Gneezy, Uri - 2020
Expert advice is often biased in ways that benefit the advisor. We demonstrate how self-deception helps advisors be biased while preserving their self-image as ethical and identify limits to advisors' ability to self-deceive. In experiments where advisors recommend one of two investments to a...
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Does Revealing Personality Data Affect Prosocial Behavior?
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...
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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine
Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019
The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...
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The Origins of Common Identity : Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine
Dehdari, Sirus H. - 2019
The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858698
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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021
We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...
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Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity : What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
Aksoy, Cevat; Cabrales, Antonio; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2021
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity and trust of EU citizens. We find that priming the COVID-19 pandemic increases altruism and...
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