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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Felfe, Christina; Kocher, Martin; Rainer, Helmut; … - 2021

. We study this question in the context of Germany, by asking whether the propensity of immigrant youth to cooperate with … in a way that generates higher levels of efficiency in the interaction between social groups …

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Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?

Dohmen, Thomas - 2021

High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance effects, namely performance decrements despite strong incentives and high motivation. By analyzing the...

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work

Rosaz, Julie - 2012

While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....

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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Kato, Takao - 2013

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

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The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

Suchon, Rémi - 2019

In a laboratory experiment we test the interaction effects of status and group identity on interpersonal trust. Natural group identity is generated by school affiliation. Status (expert or agent) is awarded based on relative performance in a math quiz that is ex ante less favorable to the...

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Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment About In-Group Favouritism

Hammermann, Andrea - 2012

choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … (path of study) of the pool of possible team mates and received a signal giving weak information about their ability … chosen team mate. However, we found the opposite. The subjects exerted more favouritism in the revenue sharing scenario …

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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2011

There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...

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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance

Königstein, Manfred; Lünser, Gabriele K. - 2021

Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose work effort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for both tasks as offered...

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Saving Face and Group Identity

Eriksson, Tor - 2015

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...

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