A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. In a laboratory experiment, we show that individuals use …

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. In a laboratory experiment, we show that individuals use …

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors … supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the supervisors, but at least one third of them bias their report. Both selfish …

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors … supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the supervisors, but at least one third of them bias their report. Both selfish …

experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …-select their task. This is likely due to subjects’ bias regarding their transitory ability. Naïve thinking, more than optimism …/pessimism bias, may explain why subjects do not distort their effort prior to promotion, contrary to Lazear’s (2004) prediction. …

-effort experiment in which individuals had to decide when to exit the situation: a continuous reinforcement schedule (all periods paid …