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Zizzo, Daniel John - 2011

This note paper considers briefly whether dictator games are a good tool to measure altruism. The answer is negative: behavior in dictator games is seriously confounded by what I shall label experimenter demand effects. Section 2 briefly defines dictator games and reviews some of its purported...

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How to measure time preferences in children : a comparison of two methods

Angerer, Silvia; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2015

We measure time preferences in a sample of 561 children aged seven to eleven years. Using a within-subject design we compare the behavior of our subjects in two distinct experimental tasks: a standard choice list with multiple decisions and a simpler time-investment-exercise requiring one...

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Measuring time and risk preferences : realiability, stability, domain specificity

Wölbert, Eva; Riedl, Arno - 2013

To accurately predict behavior economists need reliable measures of individual time preferences and attitudes toward risk and typically need to assume stability of these characteristics over time and across decision domains. We test the reliability of two choice tasks for eliciting discount...

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Measuring Time and Risk Preferences : Reliability, Stability, Domain Specificity

Woelbert, Eva - 2013

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Measuring Loss Aversion under Ambiguity : A Method to Make Prospect Theory Completely Observable

Abdellaoui, Mohammed - 2016

and Kahneman's (1992) prospect theory. While methods existed to measure event weighting and the utility for gains and … measure prospect theory's entire utility function. Consequently, we can properly identify properties of utility and perform … new tests of prospect theory. We implemented our method in an experiment and obtained support for prospect theory. Utility …

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Measuring Time and Risk Preferences : Reliability, Stability, Domain Specificity

Woelbert, Eva - 2013

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Economics meets psychology : experimental and self-reported measures of individual competitiveness

Bönte, Werner; Lombardo, Sandro; Urbig, Diemo - 2016

confronted with a specific task self-select into a competitive versus a piece-rate payment scheme. So far, both measurement …

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Identification problems in personality psychology

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

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Measuring Multivariate Risk Preferences

Ebert, Sebastian - 2016

We measure risk preferences for decisions that involve more than a single monetary attribute. According to theory, the …

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Credit Constraints and the Measurement of Time Preferences

Dean, Mark - 2014

Incentivized experiments are commonly used to estimate marginal rates of intertemporal substitution (MRS) in the lab and in the field in order to make inferences about individual time preferences. This paper considers an integrated model of behavior in which individuals are subject to financial...

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