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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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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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challenging task to identify and measure moral behavior in markets. Based on a theoretical model, we examine in an experiment the …
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We study behavior in a search experiment where sellers receive randomized bids from a computer. At any time, sellers …. -- search experiment ; time ; group decision ; gender differences …
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We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We reformulated the task in terms of "assets" in a market context. Teams of traders learn the task's...
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property rights. -- property rights ; theft ; efficiency ; experiment ; socio-political factors …
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Much is known about heterogeneity in social preferences and about heterogeneity in lying aversion - but little is known … about the well-being of others but also about honesty? And are the selfish those who lie whenever lying maximizes their … let them make decisions in an environment where lying increases the own material payoff and has either consequences for …
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more efficient and end-of-experiment imbalances common in SSW-markets are not observed. Our results demonstrate, that …
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present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …
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