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and behavior. We find little evidence of order effects in our experiment. …
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A popular empirical technique to measure norms uses coordination games to elicit what subjects in an experiment …
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We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants' agreement with the statement "Competition brings the best out of me", predicts individuals' willingness to compete in the laboratory after controlling for their ability,...
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results of a meta-study of the literature and a new experiment. Our meta-study is based on 19 experimental studies conducted … the direction of the effect of the intervention. We design a new experiment that is not vulnerable to this potential … intuitive and deliberative systems. Taken together, the findings of our meta-study and the new experiment offer little support …
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We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately from dictator, recipient, and disinterested third party respondents and find that elicited norms are stable and insensitive to the role...
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deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we …
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We experimentally investigate a repeated "inspection game" where, in the stage game, an employee can either work or shirk and an employer simultaneously chooses to inspect or not inspect. The unique equilibrium of the stage game is in mixed strategies with positive probabilities of...
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