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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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Strategic sophistication of adolescents: Evidence from experimental normal-form games
Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2010
We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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Self-selection and the efficiency of tournaments
Eriksson, Tor; Teyssier, Sabrina; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006
to investigate the ex ante sorting effect of tournaments. This paper reports results from an experiment analyzing whether …
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Role selection and team performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...
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Role Selection and Team Performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225777
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Adverse selection and incentives in an early retirement program
Whelan, Kenneth T.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Hallock, Kevin F. - 2011
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective bargaining agreements, historical employee count and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282436
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
related to the acquisition of human capital, considering not just the decision on study time, but also on socialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269286
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An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Mennel, Tim - 2003
We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their type. We derive a recursive solution of our dynamic adverse selection problem with repeated moral hazard. Conditions...
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Should UI Benefits Really Fall Over Time?
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José V. - 2002
The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden saving. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over the...
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