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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas - 2012

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Reuben, Ernesto - 2011

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals

Reuben, Ernesto - 2015

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring money to two competing candidates. The success of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not...

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations : Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Reuben, Ernesto - 2013

Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these...

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The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information

Casoria, Fortuna; Reuben, Ernesto; Rott, Christina - 2021

We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have. We evaluate whether sharing an identity results...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2021

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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