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To choose or not to choose : contracts, reference points, reciprocity, and signaling
Erlei, Mathias; Reinhold, Christian - 2012 - This version: January 2012
exogenously. We explain this by introducing two further effects, a reciprocity effect and a signaling effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481418
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Stigma and Take-up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D. - 2023
Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may … randomized field experiments, we show that stigma can affect consequential labor market decisions. Treatments designed to … alleviate stigma concerns about taking entry-level jobs - such as how those jobs are perceived by society - had small average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469334
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Stigma and take-up of labor market assistance : evidence from two field experiments
Osman, Adam; Speer, Jamin D. - 2023
Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may … randomized field experiments, we show that stigma can affect consequential labor market decisions. Treatments designed to … alleviate stigma concerns about taking entry-level jobs - such as how those jobs are perceived by society - had small average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014428448
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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to … untruthfully signal to have a Georgian name. Signaling behavior is driven by expected transfers and non-pecuniary motives. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105536
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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? An experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior
Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012
This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291831
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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - 2013
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293923
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294806
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294818
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Contract design and insurance fraud: An experimental investigation
Lammers, Frauke; Schiller, Jörg - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of insurance contract design on the behavior of filing fraudulent claims in an experimental setup. We test how fraud behavior varies for insurance contracts with full coverage, a straight deductible or variable premiums (bonus-malus contract). In our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300737
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Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
The ability to delay gratification has been shown to be related to higher education and income and better health status. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345372