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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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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2013

Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...

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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013

mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …

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The Role of Payoff Parameters for Cooperation in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma

Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2024

three experiments (N = 1,993): in a preliminary experiment, we vary the payoffs over a large range. In our first main … our experiments and the complementary analyses is that cooperation in a PD increases with the gains of mutual cooperation …

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Experiments on unemployment benefit sanctions and job search behavior

Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; van Ours, Jan C. - 2004

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effect that unemployed want to avoid getting a benefit sanction...

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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2004

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...

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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht; Raab, Philippe - 2004

Holmström?s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires players to use information in a Bayesian way – which may or may not reasonably approximate real-life decision makers?...

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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2006

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are types of players...

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