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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371894
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding multi-period contracts are not enforceable. In a simple, context-rich environment, we experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233858
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Role Selection and Team Performance
Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225777
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Lying and Team Incentives
Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294841
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323383
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369116
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Search, Effort, and Locus of Control
McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We test the hypothesis that locus of control – one's perception of control over events in life – influences search by … affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are … evidence that locus of control measures can be used to identify job seekers at risk of becoming "discouraged" and abandoning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278191
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Does Competition Enhance Performance or Cheating? A Laboratory Experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we experimentally test whether competing for a desired reward does not only affect individuals … our experiment subjects conduct a task where they have the possibility to make use of illegitimate tools to better their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703336
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence
Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703430