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Khadjavi, Menusch - 2014

Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison … survey evidence however suggests that a majority of criminals are biased and may not react to deterrence incentives. This … study employs an extra-laboratory experiment in a German prison to test the effectiveness of deterrence. Subjects either …

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Truth-telling and the regulator : evidence from a field experiment with commercial fishermen

Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Quaas, Martin F. - 2016

Understanding what determines the extent to which economic agents tell the truth to their regulating authority is of major economic importance, from banking to environmental protection. To this end, we examine truth-telling of German commercial fishermen in an artefactual field experiment. Their...

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Equal split in the informal market for group train travel

Waichman, Israel; Korzhenevych, Artem; Requate, Tilman - 2010

In this paper we make use of a unique dataset collected in the central train station of Kiel, Germany. A group ticket is used by individual proposers who search for co-travelers to share the ride with shortly before the train departure. The bargaining behavior resembles the Ultimatum game to the...

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Income inequality and risk taking

Schmidt, Ulrich; Neyse, Levent; Aleknonyte, Milda - 2015

Standard economic theory assumes that individual risk taking decisions are independent from the social context. Recent experimental evidence however shows that the income of peers has a systematic impact on observed degrees of risk aversion. In particular, subjects strive for balance in the...

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Social comparison nudges : guessing the norm increases charitable giving

Bartke, Simon; Friedl, Andreas; Gelhaar, Felix; Reh, Laura - 2016

Social comparison nudges that employ descriptive norms were found to increase charitable giving. This paper finds that individuals who receive a descriptive norm donate significantly more when they have to guess the descriptive norm beforehand. We argue that guessing draws attention to the norm...

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Professional identity and the gender gap in risk-taking : evidence from a field experiment with scientists

Drupp, Moritz A.; Khadjavi, Menusch; Riekhof, … - 2017 - This version: April 19, 2017

The gender gap in risk-taking is often used to explain differences in labor market outcomes. Some studies, however, suggest that this gender gap does not extend to professional contexts. This paper examines potential drivers of the gender gap in risk-taking, comparing the professional context of...

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Knowledge about aerosol injection does not reduce individual mitigation efforts

Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2015

Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a climate engineering (CE) method that is reputed to be very effective in cooling the planet but is also thought to involve major risks and side effects. As a new option in the bid to counter climate change, it has attracted an increasing amount of...

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Not in my backyard : CCS storage sites and public perception of CCS

Braun, Carola - 2016

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technology that counteracts climate change by capturing atmospheric emissions of CO2 from human activities, storing them in geological formations underground. However, CCS also involves major risks and side effects, and faces strong public opposition....

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Social capital and large-scale agricultural investments : an experimental investigation in Zambia

Khadjavi, Menusch; Sipangule, Kacana; Thiele, Rainer - 2016

Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) typically depend on strong formal institutions and market-oriented intensive farming, whereas informal institutions tend to characterize the traditional villages located around them. We investigate changes to social capital in such villages when LSAIs...

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Gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes : experimental evidence from a matrilineal and a patrilineal society

Pondorfer, Andreas; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rehdanz, Katrin; … - 2014

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women across two distinct island societies in the Pacific: the patrilineal Palawan in the Philippines and the matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender...

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