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Discrimination at young age : experimental evidence from preschool children

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2018

Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...

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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Behavioral indifference curves

Komlos, John - 2014

According to the endowment effect there is some discomfort associated with giving up a good, that is to say, we are willing to give up something only if the price is greater than the price we are willing to pay for it. This implies that the indifference curves should designate a reference point...

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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

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The formation of risk preferences through small-scale events

Angerer, Silvia; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2021

Large, macroeconomic shocks in the past have been shown to influence economic decisions in the present. We study in an experiment with 743 subjects whether small-scale, seemingly negligible, events also affect the formation of risk preferences. In line with a reinforcement learning model, we...

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Discrimination in the general population

Angerer, Silvia; Brosch, Hanna; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2024

We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we randomly vary receivers’ migration background and other...

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Growth of income and welfare in the U.S, 1979-2011

Komlos, John - 2016

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