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Honesty vs. advocacy
Kim, Kyungmin; Pogach, Jonathan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 51-74
We examine the roles and values of honesty and advocacy in communication by studying two closely-related variants of … the standard cheap-talk game. In the honesty model, the sender is behavioral and honestly reveals the state with a …
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Self-image and moral balancing: An experimental analysis
Ploner, Matteo; Regner, Tobias - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 374-383
In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the endowment (low/high) in a subsequent dictator game. In one treatment the experimenter is present and no cheating is possible, while in another subjects can enter the result of the roll themselves. Moral...
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Roll a die and tell a lie – What affects honesty?
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossef - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 107 (2014) PA, pp. 153-172
We examine the effect of religiosity and gender on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments … among secular and religious Jewish students. The highest level of honesty was found among young religious females while the … lowest was found among secular females. Finally, we derive practical implications for increasing the level of honesty in …
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Timing of kindness – Evidence from a field experiment
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 79-87
We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is substantially higher...
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