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One size fits all? The interplay of incentives, effort provision, and personality

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bortolotti, Stefania; Salicath, Daniel; … - 2024

, personality traits, economic preferences and socio-economic background matter. Algorithmic assignment of payment schemes could … heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and …

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real … that has examined how and when economic preferences are formed, putting particular emphasis on the role of … intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …

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Are economic preferences shaped by the family context? The impact of birth order and siblings' sex composition on economic preferences

Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes … social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …

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Children's patience and schooltrack choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

, risk preferences, and cognitive abilities, and is not driven by sample attrition. Accounting for middle-school GPA as a …

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Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks

Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...

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Complementarities in behavioral interventions: Evidence from a field experiment on resource conservation

Fang, Ximeng; Götte, Lorenz; Rockenbach, Bettina; … - 2023

Behavioral policy often aims at influencing behavior by mitigating biases due to, e.g., imperfect information or inattention. We study how this is affected by the simultaneous presence of multiple biases arising from different sources, through a field experiment on resource conservation in an...

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Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020

correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …

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An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network gamess

Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - 2019

The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network structure. We examine how pre-play communication and...

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a...

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Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

own present bias, but molding their children's preferences towards more time-consistent choices. …

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