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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults
Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010
We measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: college students, non-student adults from the community surrounding the college, and adult trainee truckers in a residential training program. The first two groups were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933787
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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults
Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010
We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314280
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Workplace democracy in the lab
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - In: Industrial relations journal 45 (2014) 4, pp. 313-328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486449
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Workplace democracy in the lab
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2011
While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126031
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Workplace Democracy in the Lab
Mellizo, Philip - 2011
While intuition suggests that empowering workers to have some say in the control of the firm is likely to have beneficial incentive effects, empirical evidence of such an effect is hard to come by because of numerous confounding factors in the naturally occurring data. We report evidence from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130466
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Mutual monitoring in teams : theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003836257
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Mutual monitoring in teams : theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2006
requires reasonably accurate public information concerning the behavior of each player. We provide a model of team production … willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group … reciprocity in teams. -- team production ; public good ; monitoring ; punishment ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314674
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Norm enforcement : anger, indignation or reciprocity?
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2005
The enforcement of social norms often requires that unaffected third parties sanction offenders. Given the renewed interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we report on the results of an experiment designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002772735
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Performance pay and worker cooperation : evidence from an artefactual field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 70 (2009) 3, pp. 458-469
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Norm enforcement : anger, indignation or reciprocity?
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837150