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Mutual monitoring in teams : theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2006

Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which requires reasonably accurate public information...

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Comparing students to workers : the effects of social framing on behavior in distribution games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults

Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010

We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...

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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017

Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

hypothesized and examined in theory and experiments, the literature is largely silent on the comparison. I report the results of a …

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Compensating differentials in experimental labor markets

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - 2015

The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …

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Motivating agents : how much does the mission matter?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Gong, Erick - 2013

Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well …

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Progressive taxation in a tournament economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - 2014

Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...

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A behaviorally-validated warm glow questionnaire

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Lyford, Alex; Zhang, Mingfang - 2023

Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many settings. We combine standard altruism and warm glow choice experiments with a battery of candidate...

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