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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first …

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The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?

Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009

The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...

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Incentive effects on risk attitude in small probability prospects

Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...

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An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity

Asano, Takao; Okudaira, Hiroko; Sasaki, Masaru - 2014

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

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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2015

It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...

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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control

Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - 2015

Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to the...

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Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?

Gerhardt, Holger; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2015

within a particular range. We test the hypotheses in a lab experiment with a large number of subjects (N = 308), using a well …

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Safe Options Induce Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - 2017

Gender differences in risk attitudes are frequently observed, although recent literature has shown that they are context dependent rather than ubiquitous. In this paper we try to rationalize the heterogeneity of results investigating experimentally whether the presence of a safe option among the...

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Too Lucky to Be True: Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating

Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017

experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe … amount or by engaging in a risky, but potentially more profitable, in-vestment. In one treatment, the outcome of the risky … investment is determined by a random move, while in another treatment stakeholders can cheat to obtain the more profitable …

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