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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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experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that … reciprocity and inequality aversion reduce the attraction of performance related pay. Other-regarding preferences influence both …
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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of … widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social …
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In this article, we use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm's matching model of unemployment. To the best of...
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This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
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In a real-effort experiment, we investigate how the timing of discretionary bonuses affects the relationship between … but decreases substantially, if the bonus is not paid. This is consistent with negative reciprocity by workers who …
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-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents? behavior is not only guided by …
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A simple principal agent problem is experimentally investigated in which a principal repeatedly sets a wage and an agent responds by choosing an effort level. The principal's payoff is determined by the agent's effort. In a first setting the principal can only set a fixed wage in each period. In...
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report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and … group reciprocity. We find evidence in favor of both, with the caveat that the incidence of indignation-driven sanctions is …
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behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …
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