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Why don't we sleep enough? : a field experiment among college students
Avery, Mallory; Giuntella, Osea; Jiao, Peiran - 2019
promote healthier sleep habits. Toward this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students, providing them …
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001
replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage … the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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Saving face and group identity
Eriksson, Tor; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015
Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether …
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Norm enforcement in social dilemmas : an experiment with police commissioners
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...
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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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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …
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Socially optimal mistakes? : debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior
Abel, Martin; Byker, Tanya; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2020
The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while...
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Exclusion and reintegration in a social dilemma
Solda, Alice; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2017
Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...
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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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