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The so-called unskilled-and-unaware problem was experimentally identified a decade ago: The unskilled are seemingly afflicted by a double curse because they also seem unaware of their (relative) lack of skills. Numerous authors have elaborated on this problem – experimentally as well as...
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of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …'s behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. …
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of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across …Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test … the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability …
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of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all …' behavior. Our finding contributes to the micro-foundation of psychological effects of incentives. …
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-and-stingy. Using an experiment the authors find that both income-status and generosity-status concerns affect behavior. Furthermore …
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We use a novel experimental design to examine the role of reputational concerns in explaining conditional cooperation … end is known, we can distinguish between strategically and non-strategically motivated cooperation. Second movers who are …
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We study time preferences in a real-effort experiment with a one-month horizon. We report that two thirds of choices …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender–receiver game and a sequential game of matching pennies …
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laboratory experiment to study the elements and dynamics of this type of institution. Peer-to-peer reciprocity is important, and … having the ability to practice targeted reciprocity in our experiment increases contributions to the public good by 14 … cannot benefit from a norm of cooperation. Contrary to previous studies, we do not observe indirect reciprocity. Length: 39 …
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