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Voluntary contributions with risky and uncertain marginal returns : the importance of the minimal value
Levati, M. Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - 2009
Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returns from the public good significantly lower contributions. This paper presents experimental results illustrating that the effects of risk and uncertainty depend on the employed parameterization. Specifically, if the value of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887174
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Preferences over social risk : does (group) size matter?
Morone, Andrea; Temerario, Tiziana - 2016
In this paper, we first replicated Harrison et al. (2012). Then, we studied if the group's size has an impact on group's risk aversion. In line with Harrison et al. (2012), our results confirm that no significant differences occur between individuals and groups risk aversion in three-person...
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Gender differences in risk aversion : do single-sex environments affect their development?
Booth, Alison L.; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011
economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521218
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion : Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?
Booth, Alison L. - 2011
economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118042
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Can Risk-Taking Preferences Be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2021
We summarise our two sets of controlled experiments designed to see if single-sex classes within coeducational environments modify students’ risk-taking attitudes. In Booth and Nolen (2012b), subjects are in years 10 and 11, while in Booth, Cardona-Sosa and Nolen (2014), they are first-year...
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Individual and group preferences over risk : does group size matter?
Morone, Andrea; Nemore, Francesco; Temerario, Tiziana - 2017
In this paper we investigated group size impact on risk aversion when a majority rule is applied. Drawing on the widely used Holt and Laury’s (2002) lottery pairs, we observed a risky shift for both individual and groups regardless of their size. However, groups choices are shown to be closer...
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Chapter 10. Lab in the Field : Measuring Preferences in the Wild
Gneezy, U.; Imas, A. - 2017
begin by examining how the methodology has been used to test economic models with populations of theoretical interest. Next … covariates to test theoretical predictions and explore behavioral mechanisms. We proceed to discuss how the methodology can be … utilized to compare behavior across cultures and contexts, and test for the external validity of results obtained in the lab …
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Gambling in Risk-Taking Contests : Experimental Evidence
Embrey, Matthew - 2020
This paper investigates whether contest schemes induce excessive risk-taking by implementing in the laboratory a novel stopping task based on the contest model of Seel and Strack (2013). In this stylized setting, managers who face contest payoffs have an incentive to delay halting projects with...
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Sex hormones and competitive bidding
Schipper, Burkhard - 2012
We correlate competitive bidding and profits in symmetric independent private value first-price auctions with salivary testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, and cortisol in more than 200 subjects. Females bid significantly higher and earn significantly lower profits than males. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544159
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Gambling for the upper hand : settlement negotiations in the lab
Miettinen, Topi; Ropponen, Olli; Sääskilahti, Pekka - 2011
We exploit a controlled frameless laboratory experiment to study settlement negotiations and the plaintiff's decision to raise a lawsuit in case of an impasse. We find that greater variance in court outcomes increases the litigation rate and lowers the settlement rate. This latter finding goes...
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