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Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Meier, Stephan; … - 2024

Whether monetary incentives to change behavior work and how they should be structured are fundamental economic questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale ﬁeld experiment on vaccination (N = 5, 324) with a unique combi-nation of administrative and survey data. We ﬁnd...

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Healthy at work? : evidence from a social experimental evaluation of a firm-based wellness program

Simonsen, Marianne; Skipper, Lars - 2024

We employ a large social experiment combined with register-based data allowing for up to 12-year follow-up to evaluate a long-lasting employer-sponsored health and well-being program. We show that employees at treated worksites receive fewer consultations from their primary care physician and...

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Is the welfare state sustainable? : experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are … that government should reduce income inequality exhibit a negative WTP on average. The major finding is that estimated … appear sustainable. -- income redistribution ; welfare state ; sustainability ; preferences ; willingness to pay ; discrete …

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Culture and cooperation

Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010

Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...

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Bad boys : how criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity salience on cheating. The results show that inmates cheat more when we exogenously render their criminal identity more salient. This effect is specific to individuals who have a...

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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? ; an empirical comparison

Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2014

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time...

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Emotion at stake : the role of stake size and emotions in a power-to-take game experiment in China with a comparison to Europe

Bosman, Ronald; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Winden, Frans A. … - 2016

This paper experimentally investigates how monetary incentives and emotions influence behaviour in a two-player power-to-take game. In this game, one player can claim any part of the other's endowment (take rate), and the second player can respond by destroying his or her own endowment. We focus...

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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?

Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020

We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...

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The causal effect of cultural identity on cooperation

Butler, Jeffrey; Fehr, Dietmar - 2021

The impact of culture on non-kin cooperation has been singled out as critical for economic activity. However, causal evidence of culture's influence on cooperation remains scant. In this paper we provide such evidence, focusing on two key components of culture: preferences and beliefs. Adopting...

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Politicized scientists : credibility cost of political expression on Twitter

Alabrese, Eleonora; Capozza, Francesco; Garg, Prashant - 2024

The study measures scientists’ polarization on social media and its impact on public perceptions of their credibility. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An experiment assesses the impact of online political...

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