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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership: a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James Joseph - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274256
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The multi-dimensional effects of reciprocity on worker effort: Evidence from a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment
Kim, Min-taec; Slonim, Robert - 2012
We examine the gift exchange hypothesis on both the quantity and quality of output using a hybrid field-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers were paid either a high or low wage. We find that although...
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Trust and trustworthiness under the prospect theory: A field experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang; Villeval, Marie-Claire; Xu, Hui - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior: Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Djawadi, Behnud Mir; Fahr, René - 2013
particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period. Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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Whistle-Blower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2017
Whistle-blowing by employees plays a major role in uncovering corporate fraud. Various recent laws aim at improving protection of whistle-blowers and enhancing their willingness to report. Evidence on the effectiveness of such legislation is, however, scarce. Moreover, critics have raised...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem …
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The Italian job: match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …
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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …
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