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Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future …, however, is not uniform but depends on context. When the environment allows subjects to not focus attention on (negative …
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expectations. We examine the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006) in the context of market experiments with probabilistic forced … these theoretical predictions. In a series of experiments with a total of 930 subjects, sellers' valuations exceed buyers …' valuations under all probabilities of forced exchange. In robustness tests where attention is drawn specifically to the forced …
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We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and...
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decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...
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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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In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic changes in its socio-economic institutions. These began with...
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We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in …
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differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help …
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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