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Eliciting utility curvature in time preference
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2019
This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount … the Holt and Laury method for risk. The results demonstrate that utility elicited directly from choice over time is … significantly concave, but far closer to linear than utility elicited under risk. As a result, the effect of adjusting discount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062699
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755329
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550258
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The formation of risk preferences through small-scale events
Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2021
experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In … second lottery almost a year later. The same pattern emerges in another experiment with 136 subjects where the second lottery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607807
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Economic behavior of children and adolescents : a first survey of experimental economics results
Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2018
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949208
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Gender differences in performance under competition: is there a stereotype threat shadow?
Geraldes, Diogo; Riedl, Arno; Strobel, Martin - 2020
which differentiates our experiment from previous ones. We control, first, for inter-individual performance differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390466
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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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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …. -- Reference points ; expectations ; loss aversion ; risk aversion ; disappointment ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794106
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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531908
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Responding to (un)reasonable requests
Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2016
We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531913