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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin - 2011
general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two groups. If anything, the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130435
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A Novel Computerized Real Effort Task Based on Sliders
Gill, David - 2011
In this note, we present a novel computerized real effort task based on moving sliders across a screen which overcomes many of the drawbacks of existing real effort tasks. The task was first developed and used by us in Gill and Prowse (American Economic Review, forthcoming). We outline the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122979
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Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - a First Survey of Experimental Economics Results
Sutter, Matthias - 2018
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research hasexploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906523
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De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum : An Experimental Investigation
Dasgupta, Utteeyo - 2014
artefactual field experiment and evaluate whether the change in the state space influences our selected indicators of preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045026
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Gender Differences in Cooperation : Experimental Evidence on High School Students
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2013
Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080868
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Eliciting Risk Preferences : Firefighting in the Field
Dasgupta, Utteeyo - 2016
evaluate whether the simpler task allows us to elicit attitudes consistent with those elicited from the ordered lottery task …. Using a sample of over 2000 Indian undergraduate students, we find risk attitudes to be fairly stable across the two tasks …. Our results further indicate that the consistency of risk attitudes across the tasks depends on gender of the subject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997437
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098463
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Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
Siniver, Erez - 2017
the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose student cheating at the individual level and correlate it with … exam score (PES). The experiment involved two classes of third-year economics students incentivized by a competitive reward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957475
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field : An Experiment in Public Transportations
Dai, Zhixin - 2016
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study … attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999034