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Take Your Time to Grow: A Field Experiment on the Hiring of Youths

Dorothea Kübler, Julia Schmid, Robert Stüber

German Economic Review > 20 > 4 > e706 - e729

We investigate the effect of spells of no formal employment of young Germans on their chances of entering the labor market through an apprenticeship. We also study whether the potential negative effects of such spells can be mitigated by publicly provided training measures. In a field experiment, the fictitious applications of three young women were sent to firms advertising apprenticeships for the...

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Clean up your own mess: An experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency

Michael Jakob, Dorothea Kübler, Jan Christoph Steckel, Roel van Veldhuizen

Journal of Public Economics > 2017 > 155 > C > 138-146

Although market-based environmental policy instruments feature prominently in economic theory and are widely employed, they often face public resistance. We argue that such resistance may be driven by moral responsibility, where citizens prefer to tackle the environmental problems that they have caused by themselves, rather than delegating the task to others by means of a market mechanism. Using a...

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Sustainable Urban Mobility through the Perspective of Overcompliance

Mehmet Çağrı Köse, Jón Garðar Steingrímsson, Julia Schmid, Roel van Veldhuizen, more

Procedia CIRP > 2016 > 40 > C > 312-317

Being at the frontier with regard to sustainable aspects of manufacturing may serve as competitive advantage due to the increasing trend of consumer awareness. In order to adhere to the consequent pressure from external stakeholders such as customers, investors, competitors, interest groups and local municipals, companies voluntarily overcomply with social and environmental norms. This paper explores...

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The willingness to pay–willingness to accept gap: A failed replication of Plott and Zeiler

Dietmar Fehr, Rustamdjan Hakimov, Dorothea Kübler

European Economic Review > 2015 > 78 > Complete > 120-128

The well-known willingness to pay–willingness to accept (WTP–WTA) gap refers to the observation that individuals attach a higher value to objects they own (WTA) than to objects they do not own (WTP). We report on experiments to re-investigate the possibility that the WTP–WTA gap arises from subject misconceptions due to experimental procedures as suggested by Plott and Zeiler (2005). The contribution...

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Privacy concerns, voluntary disclosure of information, and unraveling: An experiment

Volker Benndorf, Dorothea Kübler, Hans-Theo Normann

European Economic Review > 2015 > 75 > Complete > 43-59

We study the voluntary revelation of private information in a labor-market experiment where workers can reveal their productivity at a cost. While rational revelation improves a worker׳s payoff, it imposes a negative externality on others and may trigger further revelation. Such unraveling can be observed frequently in our data although less often than predicted. Equilibrium play is more likely when...

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler, Alexander Westkamp

Games and Economic Behavior > 2014 > 85 > Complete > 232-251

This paper studies the implementation of quotas in matching markets. In a controlled laboratory environment, we compare the performance of two university admissions procedures that both initially reserve a significant fraction of seats at each university for a special subgroup of students. The first mechanism mimics the sequential procedure currently used by the central clearinghouse for university...

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Why votes have value: Instrumental voting with overconfidence and overestimation of others' errors

Ingolf Dittmann, Dorothea Kübler, Ernst Maug, Lydia Mechtenberg

Games and Economic Behavior > 2014 > 84 > Complete > 17-38

We perform an experiment in which subjects bid for participating in a vote. The setting precludes conflicts of interests or direct benefits from voting. The theoretical value of participating in the vote is therefore zero if subjects have only instrumental reasons to vote and form correct beliefs. Yet, we find that experimental subjects are willing to pay for the vote and that they do so for instrumental...

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Price versus privacy: an experiment into the competitive advantage of collecting less personal information

Sören Preibusch, Dorothea Kübler, Alastair R. Beresford

Electronic Commerce Research > 2013 > 13 > 4 > 423-455

In previous privacy studies, consumers have reported their unease with online retailers that collect a lot of personal data. Consumers claim they will switch to alternative providers or cancel transactions if data collection is deemed excessive. Therefore, privacy appears to be a competitive factor in electronic commerce. This paper describes a study which quantifies the degree to which privacy is...

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Unwillingness to pay for privacy: A field experiment

Alastair R. Beresford, Dorothea Kübler, Sören Preibusch

Economics Letters > 2012 > 117 > 1 > 25-27

We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants bought at most one DVD from one of two competing online stores. One store consistently required more sensitive personal data than the other, but otherwise the stores were identical. In one treatment, DVDs were one Euro cheaper at the store requesting more personal information, and almost all buyers chose the cheaper store...

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Social norms and economic incentives in firms

Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler, Jörgen Weibull

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization > 2012 > 83 > 2 > 173-185

This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents’ desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency. In a simple model of team production we examine the interplay of three types of contracts with social norms. We show that one and the same norm can be output-increasing,...

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Hochschulzulassungen in Deutschland: Wem hilft die Reform durch das „Dialogorientierte Serviceverfahren“?

Frank Hüber, Dorothea Kübler

Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik > 12 > 4 > 430 - 444

Abstract: The deregulation of the German market for university admissions has led to a number of typical problems of decentralized matching markets such as multiple applications, late rejections of offers, and universities unable to fill all their spaces. Unraveling, inefficiencies and risks for both sides of the market arise. Therefore a new centralized admissions procedure has been agreed upon. We discuss the new mechanism with its strengths and shortcomings. Overall, the centralized procedure allows universities to select their most preferred students, and is likely to improve upon the current situation. However, some weaknesses can be identified that should be addressed.

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Information and beliefs in a repeated normal-form game

David N. Danz, Dietmar Fehr, Dorothea Kübler

Experimental Economics > 2012 > 15 > 4 > 622-640

We study beliefs and actions in a repeated normal-form game. Using a level-k model of limited strategic reasoning and allowing for other-regarding preferences, we classify action and belief choices with regard to their strategic sophistication and study their development over time. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge of the game structure, feedback about actions in the previous...

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Stabile Allokationen und Matching-Märkte

Dorothea Kübler

Wirtschaftsdienst > 2012 > 92 > 12 > 843-847

Nicht alle Güter werden über einen Preismechanismus auf Märkten gehandelt. Angebot und Nachfrage von Plätzen an Schulen und Universitäten, die Zuweisung von Organen bei Lebendspendern und die Partnerwahl vollziehen sich nach anderen Regeln. Wie diese Regeln gestaltet sein müssen, um zu effi zienten Vermittlungsergebnissen zu kommen, und wann eine stabile Allokation auf diesen Märkten möglich ist,...

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Gender differences in team work and team competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel, Dorothea Kübler

Journal of Economic Psychology > 2011 > 32 > 5 > 797-808

We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competition...

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Job-market signaling and screening: An experimental comparison

Dorothea Kübler, Wieland Müller, Hans-Theo Normann

Games and Economic Behavior > 2008 > 64 > 1 > 219-236

We analyze the Spence education game in experimental markets. We compare a signaling and a screening variant, and we analyze the effect of increasing the number of competing employers from two to three. In all treatments, efficient workers invest more often in education and employers pay higher wages to workers who have invested. However, separation of workers is incomplete and wages do not converge...

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Coexistence of public and private job agencies: Screening with heterogeneous institutions

Dorothea Kübler

Public Choice > 1999 > 101 > 1-2 > 85-107

In response to the analysis of bureaucracies and the finding of inherent inefficiencies, public choice theory argues for an increase in competition by contracting out government services and deregulation. The paper explores the effect of coexisting public and private employment services in a model with private information of the worker about her ability and unobservable effort choice. The employer's...

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Auctioning Off Labor Contracts: Legal Restrictions Reconsidered

Dorothea Kübler

International Review of Law & Economics > 1997 > 17 > 1 > 63-74

The paper analyzes the effects of various non-discrimination rules when the employer uses an optimal screening mechanism in the presence of moral hazard and adverse selection. The optimal contracting mechanism for heterogeneous workers (with different probability distributions over types) exhibits third-degree wage discrimination, which is beneficial for on average less productive workers. Imposing...

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