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This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
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This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
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majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the …
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We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral …
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provides an answer to both issues, showing how using an incentive compatible experiment produces, in the case of Ghana …
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This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …
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predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
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child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are. We conduct a novel between-subject lab experiment in …
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settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …
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