When affirmative action policies target more than one disadvantaged group, they contain uncertainty as to whether an … individual who belongs to one of these groups was actually favored. In a laboratory experiment, we study how this feature affects … identity that triggers affirmative action is made salient, affirmed individuals are wrongly perceived as less competent, both …

We study the effects of loaded instructions in a bribery experiment. We find a strong gender effect: men and women …

Doctrinal lawyers strive to reduce legal uncertainty based on the premise that difficult to predict legal consequences … discourage socially desirable activities. Contributions from the economic theory of law suggest that increasing legal uncertainty … can be socially beneficial. We test in an innovative laboratory experiment whether increasing the variability of an …