When affirmative action policies target more than one disadvantaged group, they contain uncertainty as to whether an … individual who belongs to one of these groups was actually favored. In a laboratory experiment, we study how this feature affects … identity that triggers affirmative action is made salient, affirmed individuals are wrongly perceived as less competent, both …

Doctrinal lawyers strive to reduce legal uncertainty based on the premise that difficult to predict legal consequences … discourage socially desirable activities. Contributions from the economic theory of law suggest that increasing legal uncertainty … can be socially beneficial. We test in an innovative laboratory experiment whether increasing the variability of an …

this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which experimental employers make a hiring decision concerning a …

In an experiment on the large language model GPT-4o, a supplier always makes a higher profit if it replaces uniform … willingness to pay for the traded commodity. In the experiment, the effect is bigger if the least protective version is labelled …

We study how cooperation-enforcing institutions dynamically affect values and behavior using a lab experiment designed …