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Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

Götte, Lorenz; Harms, Annette; Sprenger, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange …

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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

' experiment through which to study the rationality of expectations. Our results show that East Germans significantly over …

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Cultural Transmission and Discrimination

Saez-Marti, Maria; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a learning and imitation process which depends on parents' purposeful investment...

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Econometrics: A Bird’s Eye View

Geweke, John F.; Horowitz, Joel L.; Pesaran, M. Hashem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of cross sectional data by means of semi-parametric and non-parametric techniques. Heterogeneity of...

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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 … one of the key insights from theory: effort and sabotage increase with the wage spread. Additionally, we find that even in …

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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

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Helping in Teams

Danilov, Anastasia; Harbring, Christine; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

benchmark is tested in an experiment. Furthermore, we provide the first clean one-shot experimental test of the Lazear and Rosen … (1981) tournament model. In a second experiment, we investigate the effectiveness of corporate value statements to encourage …

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Would I Care if I Knew? Image Concerns and Social Confirmation in Giving

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior are kept constant across all games. Givers maximize material payoffs by pretending to be fair when...

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Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …

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Market Design and Moral Behavior

Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Stefan, Matthias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the …

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