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Comment on "Promises and Partnership"
Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
their experiment is driven by guilt aversion. By modifying the procedures to include a double blind social distance protocol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914311
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Gender and Competition in Adolescence: Task Matter
Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for competition, altruism and risk. For competitiveness, we explore two different tasks that differ in associated stereotypes. We find no gender difference in competitiveness when comparing performance under competition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914358
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Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2011
This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914360
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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2011
settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008916029
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Is It How You Look or Speak That Matters? - An Experimental Study Exploring the Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination
Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2011
Using a unique laboratory experiment where subjects are asked to guess the test performance of candidates presented by … change if the candidate has native-like versus accented speech? The experiment is conducted in Sweden and the results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008918568
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Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas; Dreber, Anna Dreber; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919576
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In Bloom: Gender Differences in Preferences among Adolescents
Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2011
We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for altruism, risk and competition. We find that girls are more altruistic and less risk taking than boys. No gender differences are found comparing competitive performance with non-competitive performance in either a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919577
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Etude de l'effet de signal de la promotion sur l'acceptation d'achat d'un produit de grande consommation.
Desmet, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine
L'article étudie l'effet de signal d'une promotion par réduction de prix, c'est-à-dire l'effet de la simple … communication de la promotion. Un modèle d'utilité individuelle sur des données empiriques de type Gabor et Granger met en évidence … que le simple ajout de la mention de "promotion" accroît la sensibilité au prix et, contrairement aux résultats antérieurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924653
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Is It How You Look or Speak That Matters? - An Experimental Study Exploring the Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination
Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
Using a unique laboratory experiment where subjects are asked to guess the test performance of candidates presented by … change if the candidate has native-like versus accented speech? The experiment is conducted in Sweden and the results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925675
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Evidence of a causal link between health outcomes, insurance coverage, and a policy to expand access: experimental data from children in the Philippines
Quimbo, Stella A.; Peabody, John W.; Shimkhada, Riti; … - In: Health Economics 20 (2011) 5, pp. 620-630
using data from a randomized policy experiment known as the Quality Improvement Demonstration Study. Among study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925730