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Affirmative action and team performance
Kölle, Felix - 2016
We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies on team performance and the willingness to work in teams. We find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not discourage selection into teams.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688532
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Deviant or wrong? The effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment
Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2017
A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead to suboptimal social outcomes. In such studies, the enforcement of a behavioral rule to cooperate originates from a single party. This feature may raise concern about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029776
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444288
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Self-selection into economics experiments is driven by monetary rewards
Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2013
Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well … the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we investigate the self-selection process of … monetary reward associated with participation in experiments; or appealing to the importance of helping research; or both. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392417
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Self-control, financial literacy and the co-holding puzzle
Gathergood, John; Weber, Joerg - 2012
We use UK household survey data incorporating measures of financial literacy and behavioural characteristics to analyse the puzzling co-existence of high cost revolving consumer credit alongside low yield liquid savings in household balance sheets, which we term the 'co-holding puzzle'....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392421
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Affirmative action and team performance
Kölle, Felix - 2016
We experimentally investigate spillover effects of affirmative action policies in tournaments on subsequent team performance and the willingness to work in teams. In three different team environments, we find that such policies in form of gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688545
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On peer effects: Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion
Dimant, Eugen - 2017
Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029799
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Effects of institutional history and leniency on collusive corruption and tax evasion
Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen; Mittone, Luigi - 2017
We investigate the effects of an institutional mechanism that incentivizes tax payers to blow the whistle on collusive corruption and tax compliance. We do this through a leniency program. In our experiment we nest collusive corruption within a tax evasion framework. We not only study the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029806
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
This paper investigates the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and Prowse, 2012). "Social" and "asocial" versions of the Gill and Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029800
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Consumption experience, choice experience and the endowment effect
Humphrey, Steven J.; Lindsay, Luke; Starmer, Chris - 2012
This paper reports an experiment investigating how different kinds of experience influence the endowment effect. Previous studies have investigated how the endowment effect is influenced by experience gained through repetition of decision problems and trading in natural and experimental markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392427