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This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …
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We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO …). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks … aversion, decoy effect, anchoring bias, endowment effect, and identifiable-victim bias. In our experiment, DMfO is DMfO …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …
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regional accents? This paper reports a laboratory experiment where we address this question. Participants in our experiment …
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problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and … antisocial behavior. Choices in both environments respond to incentives (i.e., the relative price of the ethical decision …
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a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores …
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Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online …. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically …
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incentivized decision task involves Bayesian assessments where participants may use existing (base rate) as well as new information … diet improved decision making relative to those who reported following No Diet. Our data fail to support these hypotheses …. In fact, we found some evidence that adherence to a No Sugar Diet predicted a reduced decision accuracy and was connected …
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commuting choice using data on subjective well-being. People show substantial adaptation to a higher labor income but not to …
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We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to the internet was almost...
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