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Assessing Dishonesty in Cocoa Value Chains: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire
Boutin, Delphine; Jouvin, Marine; Olié, Louis - 2024
examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over several interaction rounds. Our findings reveal that cheating is … prevalent among cocoa middlemen, with 78% of players cheating at least once during the game. However, we found heterogeneous … cheating patterns: 59% of cocoa middlemen consistently cheated when faced with a losing outcome, even when the risk of …
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Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Household Production Decisions: An Experiment in Rural Togo
Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020
Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180141
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The Effect of Self-Awareness and Competition on Dishonesty
Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021
We provide the first investigation of the relationship between self-awareness and dis- honesty in a multi-wave pre-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the impact on behaviour in tasks that include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597402
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Cheating in the workplace: An experimental study of the impact of bonuses and productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that … dishonestly. We explain how these results suggest that workers' cheating behavior responds to the perceived fairness of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287630
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Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L.; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group bonuses and firm-wide profit sharing, that … dishonestly. We explain how these results suggest that workers' cheating behavior responds to the perceived fairness of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887072
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Climate Change and Diet
Bose, Neha; Hills, Thomas; Sgroi, Daniel - 2020
interventions. Our findings indicate that the most influential interventions are based on scientific knowledge and efficacy salience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270104
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The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand
Boonmanunt, Suparee; Meier, Stephan - 2020
In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing – among low-income rice farmers in rural Thailand, who cultivate and harvest...
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One Size Fits All? The Interplay of Incentives, Effort Provision, and Personality
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bortolotti, Stefania; Salicath, Daniel; … - 2024
Incentives are supposed to increase effort, yet individuals react differently to incentives. We examine this heterogeneity by investigating how personal characteristics, preferences, and socio-economic background relate to incentives and performance in a real effort task. We analyze the...
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Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2017
In many countries, ethnic minorities have a persistent disadvantageous socioeconomic position. We investigate whether aversion to competing against members of the ethnically dominant group could be a contributing factor to this predicament. We conducted a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural...
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary; Garcia, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; … - 2019
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can explain two different types of behavior: (i) behavior in laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii)...
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