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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?

Engelmann, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...

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Incentives versus sorting in tournaments : evidence from a field experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; … - 2008

validity of results obtained in lab experiments or from sports data. To address these concerns we conducted a field experiment …

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Selection and mode effects in risk preference elicitation experiments

Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von (contributor); … - 2008

We combine data from a risk preference elicitation experiment conducted on a representative sample via the Internet … with laboratory data on students for the same experiment to investigate effects of implementation mode and of subject pool … selection. We find that the frequency of errors in the lab experiment is drastically below that of the representative sample in …

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Heterogeneous impacts in PROGRESA

Djebbari, Habiba (contributor); … - 2008

of heterogeneous impacts more generally. -- Heterogeneous impacts ; randomized experiment ; quantile treatment effects …

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Incentive design and trust : comparing the effects of tournament and team-based incentives on trust

Oxoby, Robert J. (contributor); … - 2008

perceived property rights) will affect individuals' subsequent behavior. In our experiment, bargaining pairs earned endowments …

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The effect of intragroup communication on preference shifts in groups

Brady, Michael P. (contributor); Wu, Steven Y. (contributor) - 2008

We use a laboratory gift-exchange game to examine decisions made by groups under three different procedures that dictate how group members interact and reach decisions in comparison to individuals acting alone. We find that group decisions do deviate from those of individuals, but the direction...