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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006

We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …

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Abeler, Johannes; Marklein, Felix - 2008

another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and …

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Cognitive skills explain economic preferences, strategic behavior, and job attachment

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Götte, Lorenz; … - 2008

Economic analysis has said little about how an individual's cognitive skills (CS's) are related to the individual's preferences in different choice domains, such as risk-taking or saving, and how preferences in different domains are related to each other. Using a sample of 1,000 trainee truckers...

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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

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Ability dispersion and team performance: A field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon Charles; van … - 2012

conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous …

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Comparing Students to Workers : The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Burks, Stephen V.; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2004

To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College...

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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged …This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2014

of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life

Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …

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