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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas : An Experiment with Police Commissioners

Dickinson, David L. - 2014

Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...

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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Statistical Discrimination in Labor Markets : An Experimental Analysis

Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Dickinson, David L. - 2021

Statistical discrimination occurs when distinctions between demographic groups are made on the basis of real or imagined statistical distinctions between the groups. While such discrimination is legal in some cases (e.g., insurance markets), it is illegal and/or controversial in others (e.g.,...

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The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes

von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin; Wogrolly, Axel; Zimpelmann, … - 2022

This paper analyzes the stability and distribution of ambiguity attitudes using a broad population sample. Using high …-powered incentives, we collected six waves of data on ambiguity attitudes about financial markets – our main application – and climate … change. Estimating a structural stochastic choice model, we obtain three individual-level parameters: Ambiguity aversion …

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Trusting Former Rebels : An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Bauer, Michal - 2014

The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of...

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When Incentives Backfire : Spillover Effects in Food Choice

Angelucci, Manuela - 2015

' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of …

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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics : How Better Research Design is Taking the Con Out of Econometrics

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010

This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but...

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Who is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias Among Chinese Rural Migrants

Frijters, Paul - 2015

In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of …

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Lab Labor : What can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Charness, Gary - 2010

methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do laboratory experiments compare to field …

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