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Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …

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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents : Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Czermak, Simon - 2010

We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...

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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off : An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2021

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three procedures based on final grades from school ("Abiturbestenverfahren", "Auswahlverfahren der Hochschulen") and on...

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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido - 2010

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of … convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well as perceived fairness and cooperativeness. Our hypotheses are … fairness, full convergence in risk attitude is reached in recent years …

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Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making : The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court

Mindock, Maxwell - 2019

We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between...

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Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States

Hussey, Andrew - 2014

This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....

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Unfair Wage Perceptions and Sleep : Evidence from German Survey Data

Pfeifer, Christian - 2021

The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...

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Confucianism and Preferences : Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine - 2013

Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk … from the incentivized laboratory experiments and subjective survey measures, we found evidence that Chinese subjects and …

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Gender, Affect and Intertemporal Consistency : An Experimental Approach

McLeish, Kendra N. - 2007

We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In … addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a …

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