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Do social preferences increase productivity? : Field experimental evidence from fishermen in Toyama Bay
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005
experiment have little external validity when compared to measures obtained from a field experiment with a population of … endogeously with respect to how widely team production is utilized. -- field experiment ; social preference ; income pooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039644
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"Let me dream on!" : anticipatory emotions and preference for timing in lotteries
Kocher, Martin; Krawczyk, Michal; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2009 - This version: September 2009
emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379382
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Inequality and Incentives with Societal Other-Regarding Preferences
Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2021
The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of societal other-regarding preferences affect labor relationships and incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233935
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Other-regarding preferences and incentives in the societal context
Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2020
The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421506
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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory : On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012
We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112121
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Testing Canonical Tournament Theory : On the Impact of Risk, Social Preferences and Utility Structure
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012
We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111204
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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940301
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Be a good samaritan to a good samaritan : field evidence of interdependent other-regarding preferences in China
Chang, Simon; Dee, Thomas S.; Tse, Chun Wing; Yu, Li - 2015
nearly twice as high as that of the control letters (9%). The finding adds large-scale field experiment evidence in support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317622
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Learning about a class of belief-dependent preferences without information on beliefs
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2011
common to preferences in this class. We illustrate our approach by analyzing data from a large scale experiment conducted … with a sample of participants randomly drawn from the Dutch population. We find that behavior of players in the experiment … determinant of decisions in our experiment. -- belief-dependent preferences ; guilt aversion ; reciprocity ; partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408898
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Gender and the labor market : what have we learned from field and lab experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2014
decisions and performance. Most of the evidence on gender traits comes from the lab, and key open questions remain as to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349849