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We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders …
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A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that … individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously without feeling guilty. Such excuse … excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as an excuse …
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attributions of responsibility for neediness from other explanations. We implement our design in a lab experiment we conducted with …
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We report on a laboratory experiment testing for the presence of loss aversion, as separate from risk aversion …
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Using a unique field experiment from Canada, we estimate individual preference over risk and time and show considerable …
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Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are context dependent rather than ubiquitous. In this paper we try to rationalize the heterogeneity of results investigating experimentally whether the presence of a safe option among the...
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We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
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experiment. The training technique we consider is a well-known psychological technique called "mindfulness", which is believed to … improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four …
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We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the survey. We measure individual risk...
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Field constraints often necessitate choosing an elicitation task that is intuitive, easy to explain, and simple to implement. Given that subject behavior often differs dramatically across tasks when eliciting risk preferences, caution needs to be exercised in choosing one risk elicitation task...
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