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What renders financial advisors less treacherous? - On commissions and reciprocity -

Popva, Vera - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

An advisor is supposed to recommend a financial product in the best interest of her client. However, the best product for the client may not always be the product yielding the highest commission (paid by product providers) to the advisor. Do advisors nevertheless provide truthful advice? If not,...

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Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens’ Preferences for Redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi

Voors, Maarten; Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip; … - Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - 2010

We use experimental data from 35 randomly selected communities in Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social-, risk- and time preferences. These types of preferences are important as they determine people’s propensity to invest and their ability to overcome social...

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Identification of average treatment effects in social experiments under different forms of attrition

Huber, Martin - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2010

As any empirical method used for causal analysis, social experiments are prone to attrition which may flaw the validity … of the results. This paper considers the problem of partially missing outcomes in experiments. Firstly, it systematically … reveals under which forms of attrition - in terms of its relation to observable and/or unobservable factors - experiments do …

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Do employers discriminate by gender? A field experiment in female-dominated occupations

Booth, Alison; Leigh, Andrew - In: Economics Letters 107 (2010) 2, pp. 236-238

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated.

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Strategic entry deterrence and terrorism: Theory and experimental evidence

Cadigan, John; Schmitt, Pamela - In: Public Choice 143 (2010) 1, pp. 3-22

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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment

Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia -- a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...

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THE IMPACT OF PAY COMPARISONS ON EFFORT BEHAVIOR

Nosenzo, Daniele - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2010

This study uses a three-person gift-exchange game experiment to examine the impact of pay comparisons on effort behavior. We compare effort choices made in a treatment where coworkers’ wages are secret with effort choices made in two ‘public wages’ treatments. The two ‘public wages’...

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Blind justice: An experimental analysis of random punishment in team production

Fatas, Enrique; Morales, Antonio J.; Ubeda, Paloma - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 31 (2010) 3, pp. 358-373

We study the effect of blind punishment in a team production experiment, in which subjects choose non-observable effort levels. In this setting, a random exclusion mechanism is introduced, linked to the normalized group performance (R, from 0 to 1). Every round, each subject is non-excluded from...

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Not it: opting out of voluntary coalitions that provide a public good

McEvoy, David - In: Public Choice 142 (2010) 1, pp. 9-23

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