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When are preferences consistent? The effects of task familiarity and contextual cues on revealed and stated preferences
Schläpfer, Felix; Fischhoff, Baruch - 2010
Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...
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Big experimenter is watching you! Anonymity and prosocial behavior in the laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
not provide anonymity between experimenter and subject. It has been argued that this lack of experimenter …-subject anonymity may create selfish incentives to engage in seemingly other-regarding behavior. If this were the case these experiments … differences within and across studies make it difficult to isolate the impact of experimenter-subject anonymity on prosocial …
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Moral motive selection in the lying dictator game
Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2022
An extensive literature documents that people are willing to sacrifice personal material gain to adhere to a moral motive. Yet, less is known about what happens when moral motives are in conflict. We hypothesize that individuals engage in what we term "motive selection," namely adhering to the...
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Equal Splits or Product Prices: An Experiment
Holm, Håkan J.; Svensson, Emma - 2013
This paper compares the choice of focal points in a Nash Demand Game embedded in an abstract frame with the corresponding choices in a game with a real product frame where parties bargain for a well-known consumer product. We find that the frame has a substantial impact on the fraction of...
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Some Causes are More Equal than Others? Behavioral Spillovers in Charitable Giving
Ek, Claes - 2015
People can often contribute to prosocial causes by several means; for instance, environmentally friendly activities include sorting household waste, buying organic products, and donating to NGOs. Policy to encourage prosocial behavior is sometimes directed only towards a particular activity,...
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Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Deciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit - 2010
Being the leader in a group often involves making risky decisions that affect the payoffs of all members, and the decision to take this responsibility in a group is endogenous in many contexts. In this paper, we experimentally study: (1) the willingness of men and women to make risky decisions...
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Sex hormones and choice under risk
Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2012
We correlate choice under risk in Holt-Laury lottery tasks for gains and losses with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol, the use of hormonal contraceptives, menstrual cycle information as well as the digit ratio (2D:4D) in more than 200 subjects. Risk aversion is...
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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding
Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2009
In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid...
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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding
Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2011
In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values and 400 participants, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles and the use of hormonal contraceptives. We find that naturally cycling women bid significantly...
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