vignette experiment with 425 genuine recruiters and jointly tested the potential stigma against job candidates with a history …

vignette experiment with 425 genuine recruiters and jointly tested the potential stigma against job candidates with a history …

participants in our laboratory experiment to select fictitious candidates for an interview from a pool of CVs with comparable …

representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with …

In this study, we present a state-of-the-art scenario experiment which, for the first time in the literature, directly …

Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects' utility functions. Data from the same … simultaneously with risk aversion. This paper first shows how wealth estimates can be identified assuming constant relative risk … aversion (CRRA). Using the data from a recent experiment by Holt and Laury (2002), it is shown that most subjects' behavior is …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …

experiment, decision-makers are both risk-seekers (i.e., the mean WTP for insurance is on average smaller than the expected value …This article presents the results of an experiment designed to test theoretical predictions about the impact of public … compensation schemes and ambiguity on insurance and self-insurance decisions. Consistent with theory, we find that government …

This short paper demonstrates that the claim of Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT) that people are risk seeking for loss … gives a power factor for losses of less than 1. This would mean that people are risk seeking for loss prospects. However …, makes the value function convex, which indicates risk aversion. It follows that people are generally risk averse both for …