This study exploits the opening of the experimental lab in Oxford to compare the behavior of students and non-students in a number of classic experimental games, some of which involve other-regarding preferences (Trust Game, Dictator Game, and Public Goods Game) and others which have game forms...

This study compares the behavior of students and non-students in a number of classic experimental games. We find that students are more likely to behave as homo-economicus agents than non-students in games involving other-regarding preferences (Dictator Game, Trust Game and Public Good Game)....

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die Politik in Großbritannien durch verschiedene Reformen den Schwerpunkt der Altersvorsorge von der gesetzlichen Rente hin zu privater und betrieblicher Altersvorsorge verschoben. Im Gegenzug hat die Finanzkompetenz der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher sowie für...

We implemented two experiments that are designed to recover the responsibility attribution reasoning of individuals. The first endeavor is a lab experiment designed to identify what decision maker attributes, of the actors in a collective decision making group, affect responsibility attribution....

Early in the pandemic, individuals in numerous countries experienced quite different rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths dependent on where they lived. This within-country variation offers an opportunity to study how the intensity of a catastrophic shock to systems affects individuals’...

Personality is an important omitted variable in much of the Political Economy literature. While material self-interest is the base of most approaches to redistribution (first affecting preferences and then politics and policy), there is a paucity of research on how personality affects support...

Ideology is widely considered to be an important factor in shaping policy outcomes and in influencing election outcomes. We propose a theory of the coalition-directed vote. The argument suggests that voters anticipate the post-election bargains negotiated among potential members of the governing...

This paper demonstrates that citizens in seven advanced industrialized democracies generally oppose more open immigration policies, but stand ready to admit individual immigrants. Using an experimental design, we demonstrate the applicability of the “person-positivity bias” to immigration...

In this essay we assess the internal and external validity of experiments with online subjects. The assessments are based on tax compliance experiments in which subjects earn real money, are subject to a tax, and can lie about their earnings. We identify the mode effects that affect internal...