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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2018

behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …

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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation

Baader, Malte; Gaechter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...

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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech : A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination

Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022

Women are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector. We design a field experiment to identify statistical … discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we …

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived … refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 …

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An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment : Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan

Caria, Stefano - 2020

experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees …

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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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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

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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Communication and Social Preferences : An Experimental Analysis

Cabrales, Antonio; Feri, Francesco; Gottardi, Piero; … - 2021

This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are not in conflict with those of the receiver. The amount of miscommunication is higher than in previous experimental findings on cheap talk games in situations where senders’ and...

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Leaky Bucket in the Real World : Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data

Pirttila, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2021

Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....

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When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Buurman, Margaretha - 2020

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …

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