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cooperators relieve negative emotions when they punish free riders. In response, the free-riders experience negative emotions when …
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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This chapter argues that the neglect of emotion in economic models explains their inability to predict important … reduction in pay, we argue that the reaction of workers is dominated by emotions. On the other hand, an increase in the nominal … producing a more measured response. We present evidence from experiments showing that self-reported emotions respond strongly to …
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This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any gains in earnings for the...
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The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …
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We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with … the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
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puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions as a possible explanation of tax compliance. Our laboratory … experiment shows that emotional arousal, measured by Skin Conductance Responses, increases in the proportion of evaded taxes. The … perspective of punishment after an audit, especially when the pictures of the evaders are publicly displayed, also raises emotions …
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-being by analyzing the frequency with which specific emotions are experienced in anticipation of and reaction to job loss … unemployed leads to more frequent experiences of unpleasant emotions only in the short run and that adaptation occurs more …
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In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...
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aspects of decision-making. Consistent with evidence from neuroscience, the worker may experience conflicting cognitive and …
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