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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks - bereavement and family illness - are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …

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Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma : A Within-Subjects Analysis

Blanco, Mariana - 2009

for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to separate: i) a direct, preference-based channel …

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Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Falk, Armin - 2009

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...

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A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition

Gill, David - 2009

We develop a novel computerized real effort task, based on moving sliders across a screen, to test experimentally whether agents are disappointment averse when they compete in a real effort sequential-move tournament. Our theory predicts that a disappointment averse agent, who is loss averse...

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Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments : Evidence from Experimental Data

Flores, Carlos A. - 2009

simultaneously equalizing average outcomes among several control groups from a randomized experiment. We study linear regression …

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Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions

Comerford, David - 2009

This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct their answers. We test whether respondents interpret question wording as researchers intend and...

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Gender and Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns : When Equality is Unfair

Abeler, Johannes - 2009

contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one principal is matched with two agents. The principal pays equal wages in one …

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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Behncke, Stefanie - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...

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Sabotage in Tournaments : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine - 2009

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …

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