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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system
Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - 2012
We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our...
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252294
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have hidden costs, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267460
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The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy; Beiser, Morton - 2004
Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the … are that employed Canadian refugees earn an amount equal to that earned by their family class reference group circa 1980 …-2001. However, the incidence of social assistance attachment for refugees is substantial and for those refugees who receive any …
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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
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Overconfidence is a social signaling bias
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2010
Evidence from psychology and economics indicates that many individuals overestimate their ability, both absolutely and relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple statistical comparisons (for example, whether the...
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The relationship between economic preferences and psychological personality measures
Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2012
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
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Peer effects in pro-social behavior: Social norms or social preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010
present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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