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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013
abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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Complex Tax Incentives : An Experimental Investigation
Abeler, Johannes - 2013
real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082139
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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Enke, Benjamin - 2013
-connected information sources, implying a pattern of "overshooting" beliefs. Additionally, in an experimental asset market, correlation …
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Honest on Mondays : Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley J. - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083383
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Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect : When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis
Bar-El, Ronen - 2013
We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to previous literature, free riding decreases over rounds and the end-game effect is reversed
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The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Antecol, Heather - 2013
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084141
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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
Tonin, Mirco - 2013
experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards … members of the two groups indicating that subjects in this experiment do not treat charitable giving as a normal good …
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The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
Kuhn, Michael - 2013
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us to identify the structural parameters of a simple (α,β,δ) intertemporal utility function for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084671
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Default Options and Training Participation
Borghans, Lex - 2013
the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086208
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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Exam Scores? An Experiment in a Coeducational University
Booth, Alison L. - 2013
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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