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Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study explores a rich set of control variables for...
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Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
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Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522305
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … with high potential returns to further analysis are identified. Several examples from my own recent experimental work with …
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This chapter aims to provide an exhaustive list of all (i.e. 90) correspondence studies on hiring discrimination that … of the estimated treatment effects is tabulated. In addition, a discussion of the findings by discrimination ground is …
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estimates of the effect. -- Financial incentives ; weight loss ; obesity ; randomized experiment ; survey … is through the use of financial incentives. In this survey, we review the available evidence with a significant emphasis … on studies that yield credible estimates of the effect of financial incentives on weight loss. We find that the …
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