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Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives

McGee, Andrew; McGee, Peter - 2020

What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to...

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Lies and biased evaluation: A real-effort experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...

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Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers’ performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225776

"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" Auctions: Effects of Changing Bargaining Power in Sequential Trading Mechanisms

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2015

We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price prior to the auction; whereas in the "Sell-It-Now"...

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Same Process, Different Outcomes: Group Performance in an Acquiring a Company Experiment

Casari, Marco; Zhang, Jingjing; Jackson, Christine - 2015

It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...

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Role selection and team performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are …

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Role Selection and Team Performance

Cooper, David J.; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225777

Selecting Names for Experiments on Ethnic Discrimination

Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Van Borm, Hannah - 2022

ethnic minorities based on field experiments using fictitious applications. However, these findings may be exaggerated as the … names used for ethnic minorities in various experiments may have also signaled low socioeconomic class. Therefore, in this … validity of future experiments on ethnic discrimination. …

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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 …

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The Peter Principle: An Experiment

Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The Peter Principle states that, after a promotion, the observed output of promotedemployees tends to fall. Lazear (2004) models this principle as resulting from a regression tothe mean of the transitory component of ability...

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