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We conduct a laboratory experiment to shed light on the cognitive limitations that may affect the way decision makers …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …
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Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between repetitions. To learn more about the dynamics of altruistic behavior, we use repeated standard dictator experiments. The dynamics of prosocial behavior in these experiments...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public … on gender differences in labor market outcomes: mutual dislikability impedes team behavior, except in all-male teams …
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Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …
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Gender quotas are frequently proposed to address persistent gender imbalances in managerial roles. However, it is … reveal that both opinions about gender quotas and workplace behavior crucially depend on the workplace environment. In our … survey, we observe that approval for gender quotas is low if women are not disadvantaged in the manager selection process …
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We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …
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campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field … experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for mayor in Cava de' Tirreni (2015). In both cases, a sample of eligible … gender differences emerge. Females vote more for the opponent and less for the incumbent when they are exposed to the …
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