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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … ; gender ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003978546
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Trust, values and false consensus
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012
one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … the values parents transmit to their children during their upbringing. In a second closely-related experiment, we show the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629595
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On the interpretation of world values survey trust question : global expectations vs. local beliefs
Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457340
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Social responsibility in market interaction
Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308486
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Islamism and gender relations in the muslim world as reflected in recent world values survey data
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2016
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and … consumers ; field experiment ; laboratory experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716538
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Women, children and patience : experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861619
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Guilt from promise-breaking and trust in markets for expert services : theory and experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010
broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944278
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When incentives backfire : spillover effects in food choice
Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; … - 2015
' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308981
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk (contributor) - 2007
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
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