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Big experimenter is watching you!: Anonymity and prosocial behavior in the laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
anonymity between experimenter and subject. It has been argued that this lack of experimenter-subject anonymity may create … across studies make it difficult to isolate the impact of experimenter-subject anonymity on prosocial behavior. In this paper … we use a novel procedure that allows us to examine the impact of the exact same ceteris-paribus variation in anonymity on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280719
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The expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation
Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268465
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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Doepke, Matthias - 2013
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319596
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Search by committee
Albrecht, James; Anderson, Axel; Vroman, Susan - 2007
that unanimity is welfare maximizing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268133
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283979
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The effect of intragroup communication on preference shifts in groups
Brady, Michael P.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2008
We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that dictate how group members interact and reach decisions in comparison to individuals acting alone. We find that group decisions do deviate from those of individuals, but the direction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268757
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Why praise inequality? Public good provision, income distribution and social welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269097
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Learning about a class of belief-dependent preferences without information on beliefs
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2011
We show how to bound the effect of belief-dependent preferences on choices in sequential two-player games without information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280712
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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 1999
In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers? union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262294
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Social networks
de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275834