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Social ties and subjective performance evaluations: An empirical investigation

Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...

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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2010

the desire to send positive signals to others about one's own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic …

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …

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Punishing Free-Riders : How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...

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Knowing What Works The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

Since interventions by the public sector generally commit substantial societal resources, the evaluation of effects and costs of policy interventions is imperative. This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by...

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The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?

Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009

The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to … researchers especially in health economics emphasizing the policy importance of the phenomenon. Although the bias has been … replicated several times, some doubts remain about its economic significance. Our two experiments show that the bias disappears …

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Choosing the Joneses : Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards

Knell, Markus; Falk, Armin - 2004

A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast findings from social...

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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions

Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2004

The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski?s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...

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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2004

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

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Comparing Students to Workers : The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2004

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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