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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2021

fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more …This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …

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Identity, Cooperation, and Punishment

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2021

Among economists, there is increased recognition of the role individuals' identities play in decision-making. In this paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find that negative out-group opinion (acting as an...

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Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2021

Interest in prediction markets has increased in the last decade, driven in part by the hope that these markets will prove to be valuable tools in forecasting, decision-making and risk management - in both the public and private sectors. This paper outlines five open questions in the literature,...

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Cooperation in Diverse Teams : The Role of Temporary Group Membership

Grund, Christian - 2015

temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …

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Performance Pay, Group Selection andGroup Performance

Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a …

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Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment

Filippin, Antonio - 2011

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … compete for a monetary prize, submitting independent bids to an auctioneer. The auctioneer receives perfect information about …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion : Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?

Booth, Alison L. - 2011

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …

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Opting-In : Participation Biases in the Lab

Slonim, Robert - 2012

survey and experimental data on a typical recruitment population and then inviting them to participate in a lab experiment …

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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour : Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...

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Gender and Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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