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We conduct experiments in which participants made multiple intertemporal decisions throughout a seven week period. In addition to exploring dynamic consistency and the stability of single period discount rates, our experiments introduce a manipulation to identify the role of positive and...
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The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the...
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Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a many-analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these decisions. Two published causal empirical results are replicated by seven replicators each. We find large...
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In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and … cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement, we examine the determinants of shared and sole decision-making in seven …
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If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this …
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We use natural experiments - plausibly exogenous, anticipated increases in the piece rate - to study how effort responds to incentives. Our first finding, like some previous studies, lends little support to the view that incentives increase effort: raising the piece rate has zero effect on total...
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experiment in a large retail chain. In a 2 × 2 factorial design, we vary: (i) whether store managers obtain access to decision …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash …
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