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Determinants of financial literacy and behavioral bias among adolescents
Aschenwald, Marco; Holzknecht, Armando; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2023
Building on cross-sectional data for Austrian high school students from fifth to twelfth grade, we investigate the correlations between socio-economic background variables and a comprehensive set of variables related to financial decision-making (i.e., financial knowledge, behavioral...
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No response to changes in marginal incentives in one-shot public good experiments
Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023
participants make a single provision decision. Data was collected using three "data collection processes": an online experiment … conducted on Prolific, an online experiment conducted with a subject pool of university students, and an experiment implemented … group earnings. Based on a total sample size of 952 participants, we find that, unlike results from previous experiments …
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Individual behavior and group membership : comment
Sutter, Matthias - 2008
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Individual behavior and group membership : comment
Sutter, Matthias - 2008 - This version: 22 September 2008
making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the …. -- individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment …
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
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Behavioral determinants of home bias : theory and experiment
Dlugosch, Dennis; Horn, Kristian; Wang, Mei - 2014 - This version: April 6, 2014
We study portfolio diversification in an experimental decision task, where asset returns depend on a draw from an ambiguous urn. Holding other information identical and controlling for the level of ambiguity, we find that labeling assets as being familiar or from the homeland of subjects...
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Don't hate the player, hate the game : uncovering the foundations of cheating in contests
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Ryvkin, … - 2016
who try to win via illicit means which crowds out the best performers. We use a laboratory experiment to explore the role …
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The limits of guilt
Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena - 2016 - This version: 25 April 2016
According to the theory of guilt aversion, agents suffer a psychological cost whenever they fall short of other people's expectations. In this paper we suggest that there may be limits to this kind of motivation. We present evidence from an experimental dictator game showing that dictators...
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Affirmative action or just discrimination? : a study on the endogenous emergence of quotas
Balafoutas, Loukas; Davis, Brent J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2016 - This version: 16 February 2016
Affirmative action rules are often implemented to promote women on labor markets. Little is known, however, about how and whether such rules emerge endogenously in groups of potentially affected subjects. We experimentally investigate whether subjects vote for affirmative action rules, against,...
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on a ltruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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