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We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
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Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
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one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … the values parents transmit to their children during their upbringing. In a second closely-related experiment, we show the …
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We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their …
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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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implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in …
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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
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This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two …
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refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …
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themselves? In a laboratory experiment in which some subjects compete against others and some compete against themselves, we find …
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