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To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on ?artificial fakes? generated by project students in a ?laboratory environment?. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
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To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on 'artificial fakes' generated by project students in a 'laboratory environment'. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260714
such doping or cheating within a tournament game between two heterogeneous players. Three major effects are identified …
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academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … find that women react much stronger to competitive pressure by increasing their cheating activity while there is no overall … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact …
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workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that … dishonestly. We explain how these results suggest that workers' cheating behavior responds to the perceived fairness of their …
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feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected by his beliefs about what we consider cheating? We address these … questions in the context of a trust game by asking participants directly about their notions of cheating. We find that: i) both … parties to a trust exchange have implicit notions of what constitutes cheating even in a context without promises or messages …
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In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the effectiveness of incentives.We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the trueperformance difference between the agents in a dynamic tournament...
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This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
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Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...
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We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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