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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

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Development versus Legacy: The Relative Role of Development and Historical Legacies in Achieving Gender Equality

Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke; Carmichael, Sarah - CESifo - 2013

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges

Buser, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - CESifo - 2013

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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The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - CESifo - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...

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Reference Points and Effort Provision

Abeler, Johannes; Falk, Armin; Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, … - CESifo - 2009

A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects...

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Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes more important, open conflict becomes more likely...

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Free-Riding in the Lab and in the Field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - CESifo - 2011

To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We compare results within subjects. In the free-riding treatment,...

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Why are Women less Democratic than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - CESifo - 2013

gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual characteristics does not offset the gender gap, but our results indicate that the gap is eroded by high …

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