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Gender-Inclusive Language and Economic Decision-Making
Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Hauser, Emily; … - 2023
through the use of gender-inclusive language (GIL), yet little is known about its effects on relevant economic behaviors that … could reduce important gender gaps in the labor market. GIL avoids the masculine "default" (common to many languages) by … to which gender is embedded linguistically. We vary GIL in instructions to participants across three treatments (total N …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343734
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839590
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 319-330
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116894
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Revealed Distributional Preferences: Individuals vs. Teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897339
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397144
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Revealed Distributional Preferences: Individuals vs. Teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin G. - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427651
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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777059
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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764814
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156456
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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment on taxi rides in Athens, Greece, set up to measure different types of fraud and to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002199