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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2011
understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248986
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Identifying Personality Traits that Enhance Trust between Organisations - An Experimental Approach
Fahr, René; Irlenbusch, B. - 2006
of organisations. Personality traits of subjects are elicited by a personality questionnaire (Cattell's 16 PF-R) which is … well established in personnel psychology. Linking the assessed personality traits with the observed behaviour in the game … allows us to derive detailed personality profiles for different behavioural patterns. Personality profiles differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005853919
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Equity versus Efficiency?– Evidence from Three-Person Generosity Experiments –
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
In two-person generosity games the proposer's agreement payoffis exogenously given whereas that of the responder is endogenouslydetermined by the proposer's choice of the pie size. Earlier resultsfor two-person generosity games show that participants seem to caremore for eciency than for equity....
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On the Independence of Observations betweenExperiments
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2009
In experimental economics there exists a lively debate about the independenceof observations. Although opinions on the issue dier widely, allconcerns regard the independence of subjects' behavior within one sessionor experiment. This paper attempts to shed some light on the independenceof...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022174
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Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment
Dürsch, Peter; Müller, Julia - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2010
In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishmentin general from a possible demand to conduct punishmentpersonally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings froma real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the personwho determines the distribution....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248996
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Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making
Besedeš, Tibor; Deck, Cary; Sarangi, Sudipta; Shor, Mikhael - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2009
We examine in controlled experiments how individuals make choices when faced withmultiple options. The choice tasks mimic the selection of health insurance, prescriptiondrug, or retirement savings plans. However, in our experiment, the available options canbe objectively ranked. We ¯nd that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302527
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Preferences for Consistency
Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
experiment underlines the crucial role of earlycommitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347594
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Management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation: An international comparison
Schwalbach, Joachim; Brenner, Steffen - Institut für Management <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> - 2001
This paper deals with the relationship between management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841040
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The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s EthnicMinorities
Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linkedtest score records to document the evolution of attainment through school fordifferent ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First,we show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354024
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The Economic Determinants of Truancy
Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school ageyouth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as thesolution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive currentreturns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model isestimated using a US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354067