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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2015

). In this paper we address this question by using a measure of costly cooperation elicited in a laboratory experiment to … laboratory experiments with 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. The experiment use a version of the … prisoner's dilemma game to measure subjects' preferences for cooperation. The authors observe the same subjects on the job for …

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Revealed preferences in sequential prisoners' dilemma : a horse-race between five utility functions

Miettinen, Topi; Kosfeld, Michael; Fehr, Ernst; … - 2017

We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...

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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016

We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects … of costly cooperation towards an anonymous other in a setting that does not admit of repeated-game or reputation …-effect explanations. We find that individual differences in costly cooperation observed in the lab do predict individual differences in …

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An Experimental Study of Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra; Gelman, Andrew; Palfrey, Thomas R. - 2003

The storable votes mechanism is a method of voting for committees that meet periodically to consider a series of binary decisions. Each member is allocated a fixed budget of votes to be cast as desired over the multiple decisions. Voters are induced to spend more votes on those decisions that...

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The diversity of moral preferences : evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Thurm, Boris - 2019

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Hedonic estimation under very general conditions using experimental and quasi-experimental designs

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2013

This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and aggregate quantity produced. These factors are shown to be empirically relevant and to cause bias...

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Attitudes towards uncertainty and randomization : an experimental study

Dominiak, Adam - 2009

Individuals exhibit a randomization preference if they prefer random mixtures of two bets to each of the involved bets. Such preferences provide the foundation of various models of uncertainty aversion. However, it has to our knowledge not been empirically investigated whether uncertainty-averse...

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Is Observed Other-Regarding Behavior Always Genuine?

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014

We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a social dilemma situation (a dictator game variant), people can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. We ﬁnd that a majority of the people that...

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Fishy Behavior : Evaluating Preferences for Honesty in the Marketplace

Dugar, Subhasish - 2016

economics today. This study conducts a field experiment in fish markets of Kolkata, India that are prone to widespread cheating … from cheating, the experiment uncovers an inverted U-shaped relationship between the fish price and the amount cheated. The …

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How Experiments with Children Inform Economics

List, John A.; Petrie, Ragan; Samek, Anya Savikhin - 2021

In the past several decades the experimental method has lent deep insights into economics. One perhaps surprising area that has contributed is the experimental study of children, where advances as varied as the evolution of human behaviors that shape markets and institutions, to how early life...

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