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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925572
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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults
Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010
) and therefore subjects self-selected into the experiment. Because the structure of their training program reduced the …-selected adults and the adult trainees, suggesting that selection into this type of experiment is unlikely to bias inferences with … experiment ; field experiment ; other-regarding behavior ; social preferences ; truckload ; trucker …
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Women's liberation : what's in it for men?
Doepke, Matthias (contributor); Tertilt, Michele (contributor) - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748931
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What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know it?
Blinder, Alan S. (contributor); Krueger, Alan B. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002429333
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Why do leaders matter? : the role of expert knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H. (contributor);  … - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735423
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The rapid evolution of homo economicus : brief exposure to neoclassical assumptions increases self-interested behavior
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S. - 2016
experiment, we use a within- and across-subject design to identify the impact of brief, randomly-assigned economics lessons on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528153
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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences
Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018
behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912822
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The impact of distributional preferences on (experimental) markets for expert services
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2009
as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either … ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931304
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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
to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert’s … provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert’s promise induces a commitment that triggers guilt if the promise is … 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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The hidden costs of tax evasion : collaborative tax evasion in markets for expert services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2015
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
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