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The paper reports laboratory experiments on a day-to-day route choice game with two routes. Subjects had to choose …
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-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility … many experiments (in particular the co-presence of selfish, honest, and partial-lie choices) well. …
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Understanding how people behave in strategic settings–where they make decisions based on their expectations about the behavior of others–is a longstanding problem in the behavioral sciences. We conduct the largest study to date of strategic decision-making in the context of initial play in...
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administrative labor-market data and causal evidence from a laboratory experiment. We also measure individuals' aversion to …We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived … immorality of work and in workers' aversion to acting immorally interact to impact labor market outcomes. Specifically, we …
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We designed four observational learning experiments to identify the key channels that, along with Bayes …-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in … actions, but they overweight their low quality signals relative to public information. Experiments 2-4 reveal that non …
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This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...
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upon design a novel set of experiments to investigate how quotas influence wage setting and effort provision. Our findings …, regardless of whether there are gender differences in performance. Complementing this evidence, we observe in our experiments …
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Many societies aim to design policies based on meritocratic fairness, which involves two principles: (i) paying … individuals attach to each principle from a large-scale experiment in the United States. We document large heterogeneity in …
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The second-generation GSM spectrum auction in Germany is probably the most clear cut example of a low price outcome in a simultaneous ascending-bid auction.The present paper gives an account of the events, describes the auction rules and market conditions, and provides a theoretical explanation...
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