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Shirking, standards and the probability of detection
Sessions, John G.; Skåtun, John Douglas F. - 2015
standards and efficiency wages are related. In a more general setting where the probability of detection depends upon the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488287
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Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases
Oechssler, Joerg (contributor); Roider, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play … a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores … on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005) indeed are correlated with lower incidences of the conjunction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716522
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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716538
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203
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Choice over time
Manzini, Paola (contributor); Mariotti, Marco (contributor) - 2007
In the last twenty years a growing body of experimental evidence has posed a challenge to the standard Exponential Discounting Model of choice over time. Attention has focused on some specific 'anomalies', notably preference reversal and declining discount rates, leading to the formulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637694
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Social interactions and the salience of social identity
McLeish, Kendra N. (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with an identity distinct from those with whom they will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726793
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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid : an experimental study
D'Exelle, Ben (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2008
We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754910
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Efficiency gains from team-based coordination : large-scale experimental evidence
Feri, Francesco (contributor); Irlenbusch, Bernd (contributor) - 2008
The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In reality, however, teams often have to coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760231
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Am I missing something? : the effects of absence from class on student performance
Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor);  … - 2008
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for unobserved heterogeneity across students and hence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760329
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The Peter Principle : an experiment
Dickinson, David L. (contributor);  … - 2007
The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promoted employees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression to the mean of the transitory component of ability. Our experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646697