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Distributional preferences and donation behavior among marine resource users in Wakatobi, Indonesia

Nelson, Katherine M.; Schlüter, Achim; Vance, Colin - 2017

experiment with marine resource users in Indonesia. Individuals participate in a real effort task to earn money and are faced …

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007

-survey experiment to investigate how knowledge of party positions affects policy choices. We followed standard procedures in developing … an attribute-based choice experiment on alternative land-use policies in Switzerland. In contrast to the usual … ; choice experiment ; contingent valuation ; landscape ; heuristics ; information ; preference formation ; public goods …

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Ellsberg meets Keynes at an urn

Chew, Soo-Hong; Miao, Bin; Zhong, Songfa - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 3, pp. 1133-1162

Keynes (1921) and Ellsberg (1961) have articulated an aversion toward betting on an urn containing balls of two colors of unknown proportion to one with a 50-50 composition. Keynes views this as reflecting different preferences for bets arising from different sources of uncertainty. Ellsberg...

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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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Intertemporal stability of ambiguity preferences

Dürsch, Peter; Römer, Daniel; Roth, Benjamin - 2013

To make predictions with theories, usually we assume an individual's characteristics such as uncertainty preferences to be stable over time. In this paper, we analyze the stability of ambiguity preferences experimentally. We repeatedly elicit ambiguity attitudes towards multiple 3-color Ellsberg...

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The tradeoff between redistribution and effort : evidence from the field and from the lab

Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - 2012

tend to have smaller incentives to engage in effort, the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that …

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Preferences for data privacy : sharing personal information with close and distant peers

Schudy, Simeon; Utikal, Verena - 2014

's interest in controlling who receives their private information. Participants of an experiment face the decision to share …

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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...

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The impact of experience on violations of independence and coalescing : conference paper

Birnbaum, Michael H.; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2014

The present paper reports a repeated experiment on decision making under risk where subjects have to tackle the same … experiment. Our analysis complements and extends Hey (2001) who analyzes for each subject the fit of several preference …

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