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Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …

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Incentives, Decision Frames, and Motivation Crowding Out - An Experimental Investigation

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

A simple principal agent problem is experimentally investigated in which a principal repeatedly sets a wage and an agent responds by choosing an effort level. The principal's payoff is determined by the agent's effort. In a first setting the principal can only set a fixed wage in each period. In...

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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled laboratory experiment and are able to confirm …

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Learning about a Class of Belief-Dependent Preferences without Information on Beliefs

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

common to preferences in this class. We illustrate our approach by analyzing data from a large scale experiment conducted … with a sample of participants randomly drawn from the Dutch population. We find that behavior of players in the experiment … determinant of decisions in our experiment. …

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Identity, Cooperation, and Punishment

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find …

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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection

Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

-world organizations we employ a controlled experiment. Our data provide clear evidence that agents’ behavior is not only guided by …

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Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?

Dohmen, Thomas; Altmann, Steffen; Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects …

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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014

This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following …

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The Multi-Dimensional Effects of Reciprocity on Worker Effort: Evidence from a Hybrid Field-Laboratory Labor Market Experiment

Kim, Min-Taec; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-laboratory labor market experiment. We recruited participants to enter survey data for a well-known charitable organization. Workers …

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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...

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