[eng] Our paper focuses on decision-making under risk. We compare group preferences and individual preferences over risk using a lottery-choice experiment inspired by Holt and Laury (2002). In our individual procedure, subjects made lottery choices individually. In our group procedure, groups of...

[fre] Dans cet article, nous étudions expérimentalement dans quelle mesure l’offre de travail des individus est influencée par les taux de taxation. Lors de l’expérience, un participant, choisi au hasard, doit déterminer son offre de travail en sachant qu’une partie de son revenu sera...

There are numerous examples of discrimination in labor market ranging from wage discrimination to discrimination in hiring decisions. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence of hiring discrimination, using a real effort experiment. In this experiment, the employer (principal) has to hire an...

This paper focuses on decision making under risk, comparing group and individual risk preferences in a lottery-choice experiment inspired by Holt and Laury (2002). The experiment presents subjects with a menu of unordered lottery choices which allows us to measure risk aversion. In the...

A conjecture of Laffer, which had considerable influence on fiscal doctrine, is that tax revenues of a Leviathan state eventually decrease when the tax rate exceeds a threshold value. We conduct a real effort experiment, in which a "worker" is matched with a non-working partner, to elicit the...

This paper demonstrates, through a controlled experiment, that the “Laffer curve” phenomenon does not always reflect a conventional income - leisure trade-off. Whether out of reason or out of emotion, taxpayers may also be willing to punish intentionally unfair tax setters by working less...