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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior are kept constant across all games. Givers maximize material payoffs by pretending to be fair when...
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the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey … data with representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people's trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 55, highly …
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We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...
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In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using...
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Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …
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This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …
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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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discuss selected policy efforts by the United States of America and Germany with a focus on less-developed storage …, and flywheels, Germany has a stronger focus on bulk seasonal storage that may aid the integration of variable renewables …, may provide useful models for Germany. The U.S., on the other hand, may look to Germany's institutions as inspiration for …
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We examine the effects of future renewable expansion in Germany on residual load and renewable surplus generation for …
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