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cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights …
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Employing a variant of GARP, we study consistency in aging by comparing the choices of younger adults (YA) and older adults (OA) in a 'simple', two-good and a `complex' three-good condition. We find that OA perform worse than YA in the complex condition but similar in the simple condition....
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consistent with the theoretical results: in the experiment, investment levels with and without legal protection are comparable …
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We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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direction, we have conducted a laboratory experiment with 490 participants. We consider "cooperative" investments that directly …
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report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In …
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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