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Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
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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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intentionally simple lab experiment on intertemporal spending and saving decisions with 180 students. Under a positive discount … über solche Vermögenspräferenzen. Wir führen ein möglichst einfach gehaltenes Labor-Experiment zu intertemporalen Ausgabe …- und Sparentscheidungen mit 180 Studenten durch. Im Experiment wäre die optimale Entscheidung, sämtliche Guthaben sofort …
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Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university students (Becker et al. 2016) and were implemented...
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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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Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level of others' contributions in variants of the public goods game. We show...
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. Empirical evidence, however, is sparse. Using data from an experiment with 359 law and business administration students, we …
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Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...
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