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Affirmative action, shifting competition, and human capital accumulation : a comparative static analysis of investment contests

Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R.; Price, Joseph - 2020 - This version: June 2020

depends substantially on the strength of one's competition. Second, we find evidence of a counter-intuitive role for …

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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?

Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...

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Social Distance and Trust : Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine - 2013

While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...

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Social distance and trust : experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013

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Gender, information and the efficiency of household production decisions : an experiment in rural Togo

Apedo-Amah, Marie Christine; Djebbari, Habiba; Ziparo, … - 2020

Why do farm households inefficiently allocate resources across the plots they cultivate? We explore how these production inefficiencies relate to consumption decisions and information sharing within the household. In a lab-in-the-field experiment, male producers allocate too few inputs to their...

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Discrimination in promotion

Prummer, Anja - 2020

competition. If value is redistributed, the reduction in information rent outweighs the loss in competitiveness, making …

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018

factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability, we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017

factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to have …

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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services

Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2016

factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … identifiabilitiy (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to …-telling under competition. …

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Competition for a prize

Noll, Rob van der - 2006

I present a model in which individuals compete for a prize by choosing to apply or not. Abilities are private information and in attempt to select the best candidate, the committee compares applicants with an imperfect technology. The choice of application cost, size of the prize and use of...

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