We conduct an artefactual field experiment to study and compare the behavior of workers and students in a linear … find that both students and workers sanction group members who contribute less than the group average, and reward those who … contribute more. In both subject samples, the use of non-monetary sanctions and rewards induces more cooperation. The magnitude …

We analyze a survey of 559 students to investigate how information about peers affects individuals' stated … contributions to a specific pro-environment program — a student “green fee.” Compared to students that receive no information about … peer contributions, the students that receive information about the dollar value range of contributions at peer …

pilot study among Bulgarian students in economy …

We conducted the trust game experiments with Japanese university students and international students. In the beginning … informed. All the international students are assigned as trustor and Japanese students are randomly assigned trustors or … international students, and that the reciprocity of Japanese students to the international students is significantly higher than …

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates. Students were randomly assigned to classes of three types: all female …

We have used the standard trust game on a random sample of university students (N=764) and a random sample of rural …, Dickhaut, & McCabe, 1995). The games are framed as within-class and within-university for students and as within-village and … within-district for the rural sample. Many previous studies have found students to represent a lower bound in experimental …

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modified version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modi ed version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …