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Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...
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between students’ years spent in ECE and the results of their educational assessment outcomes at age 15.Using PISA survey data …
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prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …
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empirically in a large scale online experiment and in the laboratory. In both experiments, the second mover’s lying propensity …
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behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
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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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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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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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We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. Students evaluated all teachers, but only a …
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