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Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Jong, Philip de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …

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Can Endogenous Group Formation Prevent Coordination Failure? A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation

Raab, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper studies the effect of endogenous group formation on the outcome in two types of coordination games with multiple Pareto-ranked equilibria. Endogenous group formation means that in each period players are free to choose among two or more groups within which they want to play the...

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Punishment, Inequality and Emotions

Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

paper reports the results of an experiment investigating inequality aversion and negative emotions as possible determinants …

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Incentives, Decision Frames, and Motivation Crowding Out - An Experimental Investigation

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

A simple principal agent problem is experimentally investigated in which a principal repeatedly sets a wage and an agent responds by choosing an effort level. The principal's payoff is determined by the agent's effort. In a first setting the principal can only set a fixed wage in each period. In...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of … method integrating interactive experiments and representative surveys thereby overcoming crucial weaknesses of both … approaches. One of the major advantages of our approach is that it allows for the integration of experiments, which require …

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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods

Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Villeval, Marie Claire; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

experiment based on a game in the first stage of which subjects can voluntarily contribute to the funding of a collective good …

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Transparency, Inequity Aversion, and the Dynamics of Peer Pressure in Teams: Theory and Evidence

Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

confirmed in a real effort experiment. …

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Whom will you choose? - Collaborator Selection and Selector’s Self-Prediction

Eberlein, Marion; Przemeck, Judith - University of Bonn, Germany - 2008

Our experiment investigates managers’ self-predictions of their subsequent performance and, based upon, their choice of …

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Blowing the Whistle

Apesteguia, José; Dufwenberg, Martin; Selten, Reinhard - University of Bonn, Germany - 2003

Leniency clauses, offering cartelists legal immunity if they blow the whistle on each other, is a recent anti-trust innovation. The authorities wish to thwart cartels and promote competition. This effect is not evident, however; whistle-blowing may enforce trust and collusion by providing a tool...

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An experiment on corruption and gender

Rivas, Fernanda - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2006

the same way. The results found in the experiment show that women are indeed less corrupt than men. This suggests that …

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