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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
Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082140
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083744
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084143
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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Masclet, David - 2012
punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115640
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Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program
Lucifora, Claudio - 2012
effects on students' achievements. We exploit a randomized experiment, which envisaged the presence of an external inspector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098454
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Trust and Cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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