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Gender differences in risk attitudes : belief in the existence of gender differences in risk attitudes is stronger than the evidence supporting it
Filippin, Antonio - 2016
Many experimental studies and surveys have shown that women consistently display more risk-averse behavior than men when confronted with decisions involving risk. These differences in risk preferences, when combined with gender differences in other behavioral traits, such as fondness for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471003
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Incentives for subjects in internet experiments
Dürsch, Peter (contributor); Oechssler, Joerg (contributor) - 2008
Internet experiments are a new and convenient way for reaching a large subject pool. Yet, providing incentives to subjects can be a tricky design issue. One cost effective and simple method is the publication of a high score (as in computer games). We test whether a high score provides adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728060
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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25
Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...
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Norm prevalence and interdependence: evidence from a large-scale historical survey of German speaking villages
Holler, Radost; Schäfer, Paul - 2021
We use large-scale survey data of German speaking villages from the 1930's to investigate drivers of cooperation … stronger community-level social relationships are also less likely to segment their reference group for the cooperation norm to … smaller social units; (3) cooperation norms make other norms more likely. …
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Who Cooperates? Reciprocity and the Causal Effect of Expected Cooperation in Representative Samples
Bechtel, Michael M.; Scheve, Kenneth - 2017
correlate with expectations about cooperation by others among students and other demographic subgroups. However, we lack … knowledge about whether the effect of expected cooperation is causal and a general feature of populations. We fielded … a novel between-subjects experiment. The experiment varied expectations about cooperation by others. We find that higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146934
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A nation-wide laboratory: Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300553
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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012
Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307931
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Herding with and without Payoff Externalities - An Internet Experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Jörg; Roider, Andreas - 2005
Most real world situations that are susceptible to herding are also characterized by direct payoff externalities. Yet, the bulk of the theoretical and experimental literature on herding has focused on pure informational externalities. In this paper we experi- mentally investigate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422136
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262013
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Herding with and without Payoff Externalities - An Internet Experiment
Drehmann, Mathias; Oechssler, Jörg; Roider, Andreas - 2004
Most real world situations which are susceptible to herding are also characterized by direct payoff externalities. Yet, the bulk of the theoretical and experimental literature focuses on pure informational externalities. In this paper we study several different forms of payoff externalities that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264905