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We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and …
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Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether …
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A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we …
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We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …
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as the total population and suggest non- and semiparametric estimators. We apply the latter to a randomized experiment at …
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. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior …
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intent, that can cause incentives to fail. Using an experiment that provides the material circumstances necessary for …
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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...
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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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