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Playing "hard to get" : an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior

Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014

Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this "crowding out" phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...

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How uncertainty and ambiguity in tournaments affect gender differences in competitive behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

studied in a controlled lab experiment. We present a novel experiment where subjects can compete against each other, but the … ambiguity induces a significant increase in the performance of men who choose to compete, while we observe no change for women …. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016

We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...

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De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum : an experimental investigation

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar; … - 2014

artefactual field experiment and evaluate whether the change in the state space influences our selected indicators of preferences …

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Five open questions about prediction markets

Wolfers, Justin (contributor); Zitzewitz, Eric (contributor) - 2006

Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management -- in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...

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Playing "Hard to get" : an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2014

Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this 'crowding out' phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055222

Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Social preferences and lying aversion in children

Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...

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Beliefs and utility : experimental evidence on preferences for information

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2016

Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utility-consequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...

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On the stability of risk preferences: measurement matters

Adema, Joop; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability …

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