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Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
(2010-02-01)
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot
normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand
second-order beliefs. We find that ...
Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)
Experimental results from student or other non-representative convenience samples often suggest that men, on average, are more risk-taking and competitive than women. Here we explore whether these gender preference gaps ...
Do Gender Preference Gaps Impact Policy Outcomes?
(2017-11)
A large body of evidence documents systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. One potential
implication of this literature is that ...
Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India
(2008-12-08)
Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and
prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how
often they attend religious services ...
Cooperation under risk and ambiguity
(2016-12)
The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural uncertainty on cooperation in a social dilemma ...
Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
(2009-12-08)
We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of
climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation.
While mitigation of ...
Do consumers choose to stay ignorant? The role of information in the purchase of ethically certified products
(2018-01)
The paper analyzes how consumers access information about ethical certificates and how access to this information influences consumers’ purchasing decisions. Using an experimental market game and letting consumers choose ...
Is there a hidden cost of imposing a minimum contribution level for public good contributions?
(2016-04)
We examine the effects of either exogenously imposing or endogenously letting subjects choose whether to impose minimum contribution levels (MCLs) in a linear public goods experiment
using the strategy method. Our results ...
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ...
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)
We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned
endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous
studies, we find that windfall endowments ...