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Let me sleep on it: Delay reduces rejection rates in ultimatum games

Grimm, Veronika; Mengel, Friederike - In: Economics Letters 111 (2011) 2, pp. 113-115

Delaying acceptance decisions in the Ultimatum Game drastically increases acceptance of low offers. While in treatments without delay less than 20% of low offers are accepted, 60-80% are accepted as we delay the acceptance decision by around 10Â min.

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Chapter 2. Field Experiments in Labor Economics

List, John A.; Rasul, Imran - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 103-228). 2011

We overview the use of field experiments in labor economics. We showcase studies that highlight the central advantages … potential for field experiments to inform issues in labor economics, we organize our discussion around the individual life cycle …. We therefore consider field experiments related to the accumulation of human capital, the demand and supply of labor, and …

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Chapter Four. Improving Health in Developing Countries : Evidence from Randomized Evaluations

Kremer, Michael; Glennerster, Rachel - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 201-315). 2011

We summarize evidence from the growing body of randomized evaluations on health in developing countries from the perspective of the human capital investment model, cost-effectiveness analysis, and behavioral economics. Many cost-effective methods of infectious disease prevention have limited...

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Chapter 3. Preferences for Status : Evidence and Economic Implications

Heffetz, Ori; Frank, Robert H. - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 69-91). 2011

This chapter brings together some of the recent empirical and experimental evidence regarding preferences for social status. While briefly reviewing evidence from different literatures that is consistent with the existence of preferences for status, we pay special attention to experimental work...

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The minority of three-game : an experimental and theoretical analysis

Chmura, Thorsten; Güth, Werner - In: Games 2 (2011) 3, pp. 333-354

We report experimental results on the minority of three-game, where three players choose one of two alternatives and the most rewarding alternative is the one chosen by a single player. This coordination game has many asymmetric equilibria in pure strategies that are non-strict and...

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Do I really want to know? : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - In: Games 2 (2011) 1, pp. 114-135

explained by avoiding cognitive dissonance as in Konow (2000). Our experiment’s choice data is in line with this approach. In …

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Unraveling public good games

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espinos, Maria Paz - In: Games 2 (2011) 4, pp. 434-457

This paper provides experimental evidence on how players predict end-game effects in a linear public good game. Our regression analysis yields a measure of the relative importance of priors and signals on subjects’ beliefs on contributions and allows us to conclude that, first, the weight of...

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The today and tomorrow of kids : time preferences and educational outcomes of children

Castillo, Marco; Ferraro, Paul J.; Jordan, Jeffrey L.; … - In: Journal of public economics 95 (2011) 11/12, pp. 1377-1385

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Evidence on caste based discrimination

Siddique, Zahra - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 18 (2011), pp. 146-159

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Planung und Auswertung von Versuchen und Erhebungen

Rasch, Dieter; Verdooren, Leon R.; Gowers, Jim I. - 2011 - 2., überarb. und erw. Aufl.

In diesem leicht verständlich geschriebenen Buch wird Wert darauf gelegt, dass vor Beginn einer Forschungsarbeit eine exakte Fragestellung und ein optimaler Versuchsplan erarbeitet wird, der u.a. auch den minimalen Versuchsumfang für vorgegebene vertretbare Risiken enthält.

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