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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - 2008

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Gift-exchange, incentives, and heterogeneous workers

Non, Arjan - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...

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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2010

phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self …-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …

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Directed generosity and network formation: Network dimension matters

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2010

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gaechter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments

Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - 2014

usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires …

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Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives

Danz, David; Vesterlund, Lise; Wilson, Alistair J. - 2020

Belief elicitation is central to inference on economic decision making. The recently introduced Binarized Scoring Rule (BSR) is heralded for its robustness to individuals holding risk averse preferences and for its superior performance when eliciting beliefs. Consequently, the BSR has become the...

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Lab in the Field: Measuring Preferences in the Wild

Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - 2016

experiments in using standardized, validated paradigms from the lab in targeting relevant populations in naturalistic settings. We …

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Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

Snowberg, Erik; Yariv, Leeat - 2018

external validity of experiments with student participants. Behavior in the student population offers bounds on behaviors in … participants differ from non-lab participants. Using an additional set of lab experiments, we see no evidence of observer effects. …

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