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Choosing the Joneses : Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards

Knell, Markus; Falk, Armin - 2004

A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast findings from social...

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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...

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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003

period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting

Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004

experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

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Punishing Free-Riders : How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...

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Social Reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004

altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …

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Coordination Games Played by Children and Teenagers: On the Influence of Age, Group Size and Incentives

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, … - 2024

Efficient coordination is a major source of efficiency gains. We study in an experimental coordination game with 718 children and teenagers, aged 9 to 18 years, the strategies played in pre-adulthood. We find no robust age effects in the aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger...

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Peers Affect Personality Development

Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 …

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Do Losses Trigger Deliberative Reasoning?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Munro, David - 2022

, we design an experiment based on a task that has been developed to distinguish between System 1 and System 2 thinking …

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