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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015

There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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Racial differences in inequality aversion : evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game

Griffin, John David; Nickerson, David W.; Wozniak, … - 2011

The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...

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Incentives and group identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 2012

preferences ; incentives ; motivation ; crowding out ; trust ; experiment …

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Happiness and productivity

Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2009

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …

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Complex tax incentives : an experimental investigation

Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - 2013

real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is … in a more complex tax system. -- complexity ; taxation ; attention ; salience ; laboratory experiment …

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Correlation neglect in belief formation

Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2013

Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...

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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010

interventions. Hence, policy measures promoting women can have a double dividend. -- Competition ; gender gap ; experiment …

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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Mani, Subha; Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as …

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Testing the advantages of conscious vs. unconscious thought for complex decisions in a distraction free paradigm

McElroy, Todd; Dickinson, David L. - 2016

In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we use a method of manipulating conscious and...

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