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The Endogenous Nature of the Measurement of Social Preferences

Smith, John - 2012

We present evidence against the standard assumptions that social preferences are stable and can be measured in a reliable, nonintrusive manner. We find evidence that measures of social preferences can affect subsequent behavior. Researchers often measure social preferences by posing dictator...

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Measuring Trust : A Reinvestigation

Aksoy, Billur - 2017

We reinvestigate the question first posed by Glaeser, Laibson, Scheinkman and Soutter (2000, GLSS hereafter): What is the best measure of trust for predicting trusting behavior? This important study, cited over 2,100 times, established that the behavior in the investment game, an incentivized...

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Too Smart to Be Selfish? Measures of Cognitive Ability, Social Preferences, and Consistency

Chen, Chia-Ching - 2013

Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between significant measures of intelligence and measures...

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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 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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Can Experimental Measures of Sensitivity to Social Pressure Predict Public Good Contribution?

Zizzo, Daniel John; Fleming, Piers - 2010

Public good contribution in experiments may at least partially be driven by the social demand to contribute that is implicit in them. We consider a questionnaire measure and build a behavioral measure of sensitivity to social pressure based on paired dictator and money burning games; we find...

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Measuring creativity : associative thinking in semantic networks

Baader, Malte; Fischbacher, Urs; Starmer, Chris; … - 2025

Identifying creative ability and its determinants is crucial in understanding artistic and innovative achievements. Previous work has shown that performance across established creativity tasks does not correlate within participants. A potential reason for this finding is that most creativity...

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On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics

Hojman, Daniel; Kast, Felipe - 2014

This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with loss aversion. We characterize the partial ranking over income dynamics...

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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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Do Self-Control Measures Affect Saving Behavior?

Kim, Gui Jeong - 2017

We examine the effects of self-control mechanisms on saving behavior using the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), following the assumptions of research that analyzed the 1998 SCF. Self-control mechanisms include saving goals, foreseeable expenses, and saving rules. We find a positive effect...

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