We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

television game show World Poker Tour as a natural experiment. The results show that professional players strategically choose …

present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and …

period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …

-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero …, while third period productivity is zero and wages are positive. The experiment produces strong evidence that deferred …

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

reasonably approximate real-life decision makers? behavior. Testing this theory with field data is difficult since typically …