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Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is … business and not snitch on others. In a set of fairness games where a third party can punish unfair behavior, but players can …
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build consensus around the union's preferred policy. In an experiment that mimics individual decision-making in a collective …
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In an experiment that elicits subjects' willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold …
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experiment in South Africa shows that significant order effects exist which, if uncorrected, would lead to distorted conclusions …
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We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the US Census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, and three laboratory experiments. We find, in general, that the differences in outcomes for Hispanic and...
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estimating the privacy elasticity of public-good contributions in a lab experiment …
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A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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This paper develops a partial-identification methodology for analyzing self-selection into alternative compensation schemes in a laboratory environment. We formulate a model of self-selection in which individuals select the compensation scheme with the largest expected valuation, which depends...
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We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to identify parents' preferences for investing in their children. The … experiment exogenously varied the short-run returns to educational investments to identify how much parents care about maximizing …
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In settings with uncertainty, tension exists between ex ante and ex post notions of fairness (e.g., equal opportunity … versus equal outcomes). In a laboratory experiment, the most common behavioral pattern is for subjects to select the ex ante … findings suggest that the most common attitude toward fairness involves a time-consistent preference for applying naive …
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