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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739951
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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008
Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268681
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Moving ahead by thinking backwards : cognitive skills, personality, and economic preferences in collegiate success
Burks, Stephen V.; Lewis, Connor; Kivi, Paul; Wiener, Amanda - 2014
We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/planning), and economic (time, risk) preferences, with 100 students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246051
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Moving ahead by thinking backwards : cognitive skills, personality, and economic preferences in collegiate success
Burks, Stephen V.; Lewis, Connor; Kivi, Paul; Wiener, Amanda - 2014
We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/ planning), and economic (time, risk) preferences, with 100 students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246768
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264587
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Blood donations and incentives: evidence from a field experiment
Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood … types of incentive: a lottery ticket and a free cholesterol test. Lottery tickets significantly increase donations, in … particular among less motivated donors. The cholesterol test leads to no discernable impact on usable blood donations. If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268920
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269296
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Reference points and effort provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2009
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277508
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - 2011
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333977
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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2015
There is by now ample evidence from laboratory experiments that individuals exhibit "prosocial" or "other-regarding" preferences. However, a key question is whether the importance of other-regarding preferences documented in the laboratory can be readily generalized to draw conclusions about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434284