Im Berufsleben ist es entscheidend, mit anderen Menschen "zu können" und ihre typischen Verhaltensweisen zu kennen. Das gilt auf allen Hierarchieebenen und in allen Bereichen der Zusammenarbeit und ist die Basis für persönlichen und unternehmerischen Erfolg. Dieses Buch präsentiert aktuelle...

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

Behavioral policy often aims at overcoming biases due to, e.g., imperfect information or inattention. When bias arises from multiple sources, interventions that target different sources may be complements: each intervention becomes more effective when combined with another. We test this in a...

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research hasexploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...

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 younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...