We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...

Trotz der in den letzten Jahren stetig gewachsenen Bedeutung des Einsatzes des Direktmarketings zur Erreichung der Marketing-Ziele vieler Unternehmen wird der systematischen und umfassenden Analyse der zentralen, die Effektivität und Effizienz des Direktmarketing-Einsatzes beeinflussenden...

We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being a payoff associated with each number. They can...

We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a number from one to six with there being a payoff associated with each number. They can...