Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 135
Cover Image
Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382719
Cover Image
Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on a ltruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382735
Cover Image
Distributional Preferences and Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294780
Cover Image
Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294806
Cover Image
The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an ingroup or an out-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294807
Cover Image
Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294818
Cover Image
Thar she bursts - Reducing confusion reduces bubbles
Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Stöckl, Thomas - 2011
To explore why bubbles frequently emerge in the experimental asset market model of Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988), we vary the fundamental value process (constant or declining) and the cash-to-asset value-ratio (constant or increasing). We observe high mispricing in treatments with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294824
Cover Image
Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312222
Cover Image
Beliefs and truth-telling: A laboratory experiment
Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - 2012
' first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust … believe the receiver expects them to tell the truth. We observe no such dependence on second-order beliefs in a payoff … equivalent game of matching pennies. Our results therefore indicate an impact of second-order beliefs as derived in models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312234
Cover Image
No myopic loss aversion in adolescents? An experimental note
Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zeileis, Achim - 2013
Myopic loss aversion (MLA) has been found to play a persistent role for investment behavior under risk. We study whether MLA is already present during adolescence. Quite surprisingly, we find no evidence of MLA in a sample of 755 adolescents. This finding is at odds with previous findings, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312240