This paper is an experimental analysis of the role played by workers? expectations in explaining the puzzling long … supporting the theoretical prediction that unequal outcomes may emerge due to disadvantaged workers? wrong expectations of being … evidence that expectations matter. …

garner more money than winner-pay auctions. We conduct field experiments to test which sealed bid format, first price, second … empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …

of the components of the individuals' social groups. In order to test our hypothesis, we use a rich dataset based on two … experiments on the Trust Game (Berg et al.; 1995), where subjects also filled a questionnaire containing the main attitudinal …

matters). Our laboratory experiments indicate that workers? effort choices are highly sensitive to their own wages, but …

promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can …