This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … additional individual characteristics such as subjects' risk attitudes, measures of self-assessment and overconfidence, social … overconfidence affect worker self-selection, in particular into tournaments. Fourth, risk averse workers prefer fixed payments and …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability …

criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and … disciplines: risk aversion, conscientiousness, and high self-control make criminal behavior less likely. Our results illustrate …

This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search …

the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the "Click" version of the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task, in which …

A core prediction of recent "dual-self" models is that a person's risk attitudes depend on her current level of self …-control, compared to regular self-control; in particular, lower levels of self-control should induce stronger risk aversion for stakes … within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …

Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are … experimentally whether the presence of a safe option among the set of alternatives explains why females are more risk averse than … males. We manipulate three widely used risk elicitation methods finding that the availability of a safe option causally …

experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe …