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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership : a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831912
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership : a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009 - This version: 17 April 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733209
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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership : A Field Experiment in Rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160304
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Household decision making in rural China : using experiments to estimate the influences of spouses
Carlsson, Frederik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - 2010
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses? relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736596
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Household decision making in rural china : using experiments to estimate the influences of spouses
Carlsson, Frederik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - 2010
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810735
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Symmetric vs. asymmetric punishment regimes for bribery
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Yu, Gaoneng - 2012
corruption. For this purpose, we designed and ran a lab experiment in Bonn (Germany) and Shanghai (China) with exactly the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487845
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Partisan Culture and Corruption : An Experimental Investigation Based on China's Communist Party
He, Haoran - 2017
We conduct a lab experiment to investigate the impact of partisan culture and partisan identity on corruption behavior … members' corruption behavior is insignificant. Our results thus suggest that the prevailing CCP partisan culture is generally … able to undermine the corruption behavior, while the partisan identity itself can work in the opposite direction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967568
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Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China
De Janvry, Alain; He, Guojun; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; … - 2020
Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However, delegating evaluation power to senior leadership could induce influence activities: agents might devote much efforts to please their supervisors, rather than focusing on productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842380
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Reducing prejudice through actual and imagined contact : a field experiment with Malawian shopkeepers and Chinese immigrants
Gu, Jun; Mueller, Annika; Nielsen, Ingrid; Shachat, Jason M. - 2015
We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391476
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A field study of Chinese migrant workers' attitudes toward risks, strategic uncertainty, and competitiveness
Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360288