Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Glenn Harrison
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2002b. “Forecasting Risk Attitudes: An Experimental Study of Actual and Forecast (2008)
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
We develop and evaluate a simple gamble-choice task to measure attitudes toward risk, and apply this measure to examine differences in risk attitudes of male and female university students. In...
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
Razzolini, and David Reilly provided helpful suggestions. Thanks also to Mark Renslow for his statistical assistance. 1 I.
DIFFERENCES IN THE ECONOMIC DECISIONS OF MEN AND (2008)
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
This paper reviews the results from Public Goods, Ultimatum, and Dictator experiments for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. While the results do not offer...
Version of 2/11/2006 1:20:00 AM Do Donors Care About Subsidy Type? An Experimental Study (2008)
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
An individual should be indifferent between a rebate subsidy of rate sr and a matching subsidy of rate sm = sr/(1- sr), and the total amount received by the charity should be the same regardless of...
Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence (2008)
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
This paper reviews the results from experimental measures of risk aversion for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. In most studies, women are found to be more averse...
Volunteers and Pseudo-Volunteers: The Effect of Recruitment Method on . . . (2007)
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
nce Often (3 or 4 times) Very Often (5 or more times) 1. I have helped push a stranger's car out of the snow. 2. I have given directions to a stranger. 3. I have made change for a stranger. 4. I...
An experimental test of the crowding out hypothesis
Eckel, Catherine C., Grossman, Philip J., Johnston, Rachel M.
Leadership and Gender: An Experiment
Philip J. Grossman, Mana Komai
We present an information based model of leadership in a setting that exhibits the familiar problems of free riding and coordination failure. Leaders have superior information about the value of the...
Leadership and Group Size: An Experiment
Mana Komai, Philip J. Grossman
Recent theoretical and experimental work suggests that leading by example can induce full cooperation in collective actions. Our experimental study suggests that leading by example loses its...
Oleksandr Lugovskyy, Philip J. Grossman
This paper experimentally investigates the role of gender-based stereotypes in the forecasting of risk attitudes. Subjects predict the gamble choice of target subjects in one of three treatments: 1)...
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
We report the results of a field experiment conducted in conjunction with a mailed fundraising campaign of a nonprofit organization. The experiment is designed to compare the response of donors to...
Are Women Less Selfish Than Men? Evidence from Dictator Experiments.
Eckel, Catherine C, Grossman, Philip J
Research in social sciences other than economics indicates substantial differences in behavior between men and women. The general conclusion drawn from this work is that women will be more...
A Political Theory of Intergovernmental Grants.
This paper formulates a political theory of intergovernmental grants. A model of vote-maximizing federal politicians is developed. Grants are assumed to buy the support of state voters and the...
Growth in Government and Economic Growth: The Australian Experience.
This paper examines the various sources of both the positive and the negative effects of growth in government on overall growth in the economy. A model that incorporates these different influences is...
Fiscal Decentralization and Public Sector Size in Australia.
This paper examines the impact of fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental collusion, and the resulting fiscal dependence, on the size of the public sector in Australia. Contrary to evidence for...
Public Sector Inefficiency In Large U.S. Cities
Panayiotis Mavros, Philip J. Grossman, Robert W. Wassmer
Much of the economic analysis of local governments assumes that local policymakers operate in a competitive environment where cities produce a level of local public sector output that can be...
Sheryl Ball, Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, William Zame
This project tests for the effect of social status in a laboratory experimental market. We consider a special "box design" market in which a vertical overlap in supply and demand ensure that there...
Chivalry and Solidarity in Ultimatum Games.
Eckel, Catherine C, Grossman, Philip J
We report the results of ultimatum game experiments designed to test for differences in the behavior of women and men. Women's proposals are on average more generous than men's, regardless of the sex...
Subsidizing Charitable Giving with Rebates or Matching: Further Laboratory Evidence
Catherine C. Eckel, Philip J. Grossman
We examine two different ways to subsidize charitable giving: by a rebate (returning a portion of the donation to the giver) or by a match (adding additional donations to the giver's donation). In...
Is More Information Always Better? An Experimental Study of Charitable Giving and Hurrican Katrina
Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman, Angela Milano
We report results of an experiment designed to assess the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the pattern and level of charitable contributions of donors. The study includes an experimental measure of...
An experimental test of warm glow giving
Crumpler, Heidi, Grossman, Philip J.
This paper reports the results of an experimental test of the warm glow hypothesis. A participant is presented with the opportunity to contribute from her own endowment to a charity of choice. The...
Differences in the Economic Decisions of Men and Women: Experimental Evidence
Eckel, Catherine C., Grossman, Philip J., Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith
This chapter reviews the results from public goods, ultimatum, and dictator experiments for evidence of systematic differences in the behavior of men and women. While the results do not offer...
Men, Women and Risk Aversion: Experimental Evidence
Eckel, Catherine C., Grossman, Philip J., Charles R. Plott, Vernon L. Smith
Leadership and group size: An experiment
Komai, Mana, Grossman, Philip J.
Our experimental results suggest that the effectiveness of leading by example decreases with group size. The discrepancy between the leaders' and followers' incentives increases with group size....