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A portmanteau experiment on the relevance of individual decision anomalies for households
Munro, Alistair; Popov, Danail - In: Experimental Economics 16 (2013) 3, pp. 335-348
experiments. We conduct a series of linked and incentivized experiments on decision-making, designed to see if the anomalies … anomalies in individuals as we do in couples. Thus behavioural patterns that appear in individual choices appear relevant for …
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Taking it in turn: an experimental test of theories of the household
Munro, Alistair; McNally, Tara; Popov, Danail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Using a sample of established couples, we conduct an experiment on household decision-making. Individual partners first …
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Household versus individual valuation: what’s the difference?
Munro, Alistair; Bateman, Ian J. - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2006
generated by interviewing both adults simultaneously. Using cohabiting couples, we conduct a choice experiment field study …
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Individual and Couple Decision Behavior under Risk: The Power of Ultimate Control
Palma, André de; Picard, Nathalie; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2008
This paper reports results of an experiment designed to analyze the link between risky decisions made by couples and …
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What’s love got to do with it ? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda.
Munro, Alistair; Kebede, Bereket; Iversen, Vegard; … - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2006
We test core theories of the household using variants of a public good game and experimental data from 240 couples in rural Uganda. Spouses do not maximise surplus from cooperation and realise a greater surplus when women are in charge. This violates assumptions of unitary and cooperative...
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Efficiency versus Stereotypes: an Experiment in Domestic Production
Couprie, Hélène; Cudeville, Elisabeth; Sofer, Catherine - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015
Most household models assume that decisions taken inside the family are Pareto optimal. However, empirical studies cast … decisions, using an experimental design in which subjects are real couples. The aim of the experiment is to mimic the sharing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194456
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Social preferences and voting on reform: An experimental study
Paetzel, Fabian; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traub, Stefan - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 36-55
Debating over efficiency-enhancing but inequality-increasing reforms accounts for the routine business of democratic institutions. Fernandez and Rodrik (1991) hold that anti-reform bias can be attributed to individual-specific uncertainty regarding the distribution of gains and losses resulting...
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Robust Evolution Of Contingent Cooperation In Pure One-Shot Prisoners' Dilemmas. Part II: Evolutionary Dynamics & Testable Predictions
Heiner, Ronald Asher - Forschungsstelle zur ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts, … - 2002
ROC curves from the signal detection literature are used in an evolutionary analysis of one-shot and repeated prisoners' dilemmas: showing if there is any discounting of future payoffs, or any cost of searching for an additional partner, then cooperative players who contingently participate - in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533483
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Robust Evolution Of Contingent Cooperation In Pure One-Shot Prisoners' Dilemmas. Part I: Vulnerable Contingent Participators Versus Stable Contingent Cooperators
Heiner, Ronald Asher - Forschungsstelle zur ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts, … - 2002
ROC curves from the signal detection literature are used in an evolutionary analysis of one-shot and repeated prisoners' dilemmas: showing if there is any discounting of future payoffs, or any cost of searching for an additional partner, then cooperative players who contingently participate - in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533492
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Uncertainty and Resistance to Reform in Laboratory Participation Games
Mui, Vai-Lam; Cason, Timothy N. - Econometric Society - 2004
This paper presents a participation game experiment to study the impact of uncertainty and costly political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063656