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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
' reviews on social media platforms in search for trustworthy sellers. We present a natural field experiment that examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985996
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On the origins of dishonesty : from parents to children
Houser, Daniel; List, John A.; Piovesan, Marco; Samek, … - 2015
can increase or decrease dishonest acts. We lend empirical insights into this model by using an experiment that includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498382
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Cheating in the lab predicts fraud in the field : an experiment in public transportations
Dai, Zhixin; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452076
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After the tournament: outcomes and effort provision
McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2013
largely ignored the effects of competition on effort provision once the competition is finished. In a laboratory experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221555
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Psychological effects of poverty on time preferences
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021
We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured discount rates among farmers in Uganda who made decisions about when to enjoy entertainment instead of working. To circumvent the role of economic constraints, we experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596351
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Delegation in hiring : evidence from a two-sided audit
Cowgill, Bo; Perkowski, Patryk - 2024
recruiters balance these objectives in a novel, two-sided field experiment. Our results suggest that candidates' behavior towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534663
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What drives taxi drivers? : a field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2011
. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. -- credence goods ; expert services ; natural field experiment ; taxi rides … behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to … measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers' presumed information and income on the extent of …
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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives : standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688992
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The healthy fright of losing a good one for a bad one
Cristini, Annalisa; Origo, Federica; Pinoli, Sara - 2012
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one hand, and workers moving from insecure to secure jobs, on the other hand. Using a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530676
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Coming to work while sick : an economic theory of presenteeism with an application to German data
Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2015
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513271