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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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with established behavioral concepts, they cannot easily be explained by existing theories. The experiment appears to …
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a …
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fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …
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In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...
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as the main cause and design a parsimonious experiment with exogenous prices that allows classifying experts as either …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
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We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a...
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medium sized and large groups and show that neighborhood choice indeed leads to coordination on the fully efficient …
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intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among donors and reduce such risks. To study this, we extend a threshold public …
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