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Trading Goods versus Sharing Money- An Experiment Testing Whether Fairness and Efficiencyare Frame Dependent
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Güth, Werner; Kirstein, Annette - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003
Systematic experiments with distribution games (for a survey, see Roth, 1995, ) haveshown that participants are strongly motivated by fairness and efficiency considerations.This evidence, however, results mainly from experimental designs asking directly for sharingmonetary rewards. But even when...
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Evolution of Spontaneous Social Exchange- An Experimental Study
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Güth, Werner; Pantz, Katinka; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004
Each of several exchange partners is the monopoly owner of a specific commoditywhich she can share with others. It is optimal to keep the own endowment, but allwould gain by mutual gift exchange. Participants play the game repeatedly in constantgroups (partner design) and can establish stable...
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Buying Versus Hiring – An Indirect Evolutionary Approach
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Güth, Werner - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002
On an otherwise symmetric oligopoly market with stochastic demands for heterogeneousproducts firms can either hire an employee or partner or buy therequired labor input on the labor market. Whereas the wage of hired labor doesnot depend on the realization of stochastic demand, the price of...
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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
. Experimental provision of return and cost information significantly increases educational aspirations. However, it does not close … the aspiration gap as university graduates respond even more strongly to the information treatment. Persistent effects in … a follow-up survey indicate that participants indeed process and remember the information. Differences in economic …
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strong positive information treatment effect, which is increased further by informing about policy effectiveness. …
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …, turning the plurality in favor. The opposition-reducing effect persists two weeks after treatment. Information on fiscal costs …
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The political economy of higher education finance: How information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public … support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the … German electorate (N>19,500). The electorate is divided, with a slight plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on …
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
, implying endogeneity of policy preferences. The information treatment also affects non-partisan swing voters. …
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