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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …
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accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
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We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is … order to obtain a higher payoff. A sender is positively biased if he thinks that he is higher in the deception distribution … information about the deception of his peers. The experimental data confirm this. We conclude that concern for relative standing …
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We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
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The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network structure. We examine how pre-play communication and...
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We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study three levels of transparency under which career...
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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personnel records, survey data, and lab and field experiments to study them in detail. We argue that the complementary use of …
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It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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problem. It introduces several approaches, based on both experiments and on non-experimental data, that have been proposed in …
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