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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014

experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation …

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2015

a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life

Sutter, Matthias; Daniela R?tzler - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …

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The Impact of Beliefs on Effort in Telecommuting Teams

Dutcher, E. Glenn; Saral, Krista Jabs - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012

controlled experiment, where individuals work in teams with varying numbers of telecommuters, we test how telecommuting affects …

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To mitigate or to adapt? Collective action under asymmetries in vulnerability to losses

Blanco, Esther; Dutcher, E. Glenn; Haller, Tobias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014

Many policies addressing global climate change revolve around the implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies. We experimentally examine subjects? choices in a climate change game where subjects are put into groups where they face a potential damage and have the choice to invest...

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Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals

Maciejovsky, Boris; Sutter, Matthias; Budescu, David V.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We reformulated the task in terms of ?assets? in a market context. Teams of traders learn the task?s...

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The Determinants of Managerial Decisions Under Risk

Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für …

experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders resort to such decisions. In our experiment, teams are presented with several …

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The Geometry of Distributional Preferences and a Non-Parametric Identification Approach

Kerschbamer, Rudolf - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013

This paper proposes a geometric delineation of distributional preference types and a non-parametric approach for their identification in a two-person context. It starts with a small set of assumptions on preferences and shows that this set (i) naturally results in a taxonomy of distributional...

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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...

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