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particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. … cardiovascular health. We further test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set …. Complementary to our experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in …
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strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments … of the E&S experiments were undergraduate students of economics and business administration who self-selected into their …
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The prevailing labour market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labour supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum...
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health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …
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In this Paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common … pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …
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We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The game-theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...
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health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …
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This paper presents experimental evidence that when individuals are about to make a given decision under risk, they are willing to pay for information on the likelihood that this decision is ex-post optimal, even if this information will not affect their decision. Our findings suggest that this...
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