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We examine the effects of leading by example in voluntary contributionexperiments. Leadership is implemented by letting one group membercontribute to the public good before followers do. Such leadershipincreases contributions in comparison to the standard voluntary contributionmechanism,...
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We study the influence of gender on economic decision making in a two-person bargaining game. By testing hypotheses derived from evolutionary psychology and social role theory, we find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically affects...
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In an overlapping generations-experiment with multiple families participants caneither support their parents directly …
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when uninformed traders accumulate experience, though for different reasons. -- bubbles ; information ; experiment …We study whether information about imminent future dividends can abate bubbles in experimental asset markets. Using the … have smaller, and shorter, bubbles than markets with symmetrically informed or uninformed traders. Hence, fundamental …
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dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe …
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Affirmative action rules are often implemented to promote women on labor markets. Little is known, however, about how and whether such rules emerge endogenously in groups of potentially affected subjects. We experimentally investigate whether subjects vote for affirmative action rules, against,...
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, because the economics literature on group decision making has, so far, assumed homogeneity within groups. In a lab experiment …
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