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Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2010

-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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Saving Face and Group Identity

Eriksson, Tor; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2015

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether …

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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children

Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2013

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...

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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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The Tragedy of Corruption

Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2016

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the public officials is introduced when the number of officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of...

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Gender and Peer Effects in Social Networks

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - 2017

heterogeneity that we test by means of a real-effort laboratory experiment. We compare sequential networks in which information on …

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Embezzlement and Guilt Aversion

Attanasi, Giuseppe; Rimbaud, Claire; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2018

Psychological game theory can contribute to renew the analysis of unethical behavior by providing insights on the …

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Motivated Memory in Dictator Games

Saucet, Charlotte; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2018

whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play …

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The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Suchon, Rémi; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural …

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