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Gender differences in honesty : groups versus individuals

Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male...

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Honesty of groups : effects of size and gender composition

Mühlheußer, Gerd; Promann, Timo; Roider, Andreas; … - 2024

This paper studies unethical behavior by groups and provides systematic evidence on how lying decisions are affected by group size and group gender composition. We conduct an online experiment with 1,677 participants (477 groups) where group members can communicate with each other via a novel...

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Education, health and wages

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014

responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …

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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …

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