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Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2015
We utilize a laboratory experiment to compare effort provision under optimal tournament contracts with different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345390
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Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270129
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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816609
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Parental Paternalism and Patience
Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021
on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … own present bias, but molding their children's preferences towards more time-consistent choices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497931
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The economics of credence goods: on the role of liability, verifiability, reputation and competition
Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271236
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Homophily and Transmission of Behavioral Traits in Social Networks
Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2022
experiments on more than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296584
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The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2015
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare maximizing quality of the good. Our results suggest that tax evasion attempts - independently of whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288210
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Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345372
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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
than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401662
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Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - 2006
dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325527