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This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …
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can deliberate secretly. To test the model's key predictions, we run an experiment. The results from the laboratory …
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relevant. Each experiment shows evidence (among at least some participants) of dual-process moral reasoning, in which cognitive …
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side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in …
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Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary …
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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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We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …
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