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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
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Gambling habits and probability judgements in a Bayesian task environment
Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023
information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …
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The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions
Stark, Oded; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more aggressive (that is, riskier) manner. Assuming that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059447
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Career lotto : labor supply in winner-take-all markets
Grove, Wayne A.; Jetter, Michael; Papps, Kerry L. - 2018
Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955395
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Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams : theory and evidence
Mohnen, Alwine (contributor); Pokorny, Kathrin (contributor) - 2008
confirmed in a real effort experiment. -- Team ; transparency ; peer pressure ; free-riding ; incentives ; inequity aversion … ; real effort ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652683
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He said, she said : who gets believed when spreading (mis)information
Khan, Nuzaina; Rand, David; Shurchkov, Olga - 2024
We design an online experiment that mimics a Twitter/X "feed" to test whether (perceived) poster gender influences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062028
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Hedonic estimation under very general conditions using experimental and quasi-experimental designs
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2013
This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and aggregate quantity produced. These factors are shown to be empirically relevant and to cause bias...
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Gender and competition : evidence from jumping competitions
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2013
We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or not their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...
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Risk and saving in two-person households : more scope for precautionary saving
Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - 2012
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...
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Risk attitudes and household migration decisions
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Meng, Xin; … - 2017
This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk attitudes of other household members when migration is a household decision. We develop a simple model that implies that which member migrates depends on the distribution of risk attitudes among all household members,...
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