Below you may find selected publications from the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University.

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Submissions from 2017

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Equilibrium Play in Voluntary Ultimatum Games: Beneficence Cannot Be Extorted, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson

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Experimenting with Contests for Experimentation, Cary Deck and Erik O. Kimbrough

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Historical Cost and Conservatism Are Joint Adaptations That Help Identify Opportunity Cost, Sudipta Basu and Gregory B. Waymire

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Horticultural Activity Predicts Later Localized Limb Status in a Contemporary Pre-Industrial Population, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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How We Think about Economics, Bart J. Wilson

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Human and Monkey Responses in a Symmetric Game of Conflict with Asymmetric Equilibria, Sarah F. Brosnan, Sara A. Price, Kelly Leverett, Laurent Prétôt, Michael Beran, and Bart J. Wilson

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Human Grooming in Comparative Perspective: People in Six Small-Scale Societies Groom Less But Socialize Just as Much as Expected for a Typical Primate, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Karen Kramer, Raymond Hames, Evan J. Kiely, Cristina Gomes, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Information Transmission and the Oral Tradition: Evidence of a Late-Life Service Niche for Tsimane Amerindians, Eric Schniter, Nathaniel T. Wilcox, Bret A. Beheim, Hillard S. Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Informed Entry in Auctions, Diego Aycinena, Hernán Bejerano, and Lucas Rentschler

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It Monitoring: A Real Effort Experiment, Brice Corgnet, Ludivine Martin, Peguy Ndodjang, and Angela Sutan

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Mutual and Exclusive: Dyadic Sources of Trust in Interorganizational Exchange, Bill McEvily, Akbar Zaheer, and Darcy Fudge Kamal

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On Private Governance, Bart J. Wilson

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Sleep Restriction and Circadian Effects on Social Decisions, David L. Dickinson and Todd McElroy

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Smile, Dictator, You’re on Camera, Joy A. Buchanan, Matthew K. McMahon, Matthew Simpson, and Bart J. Wilson

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The Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets, Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson

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The Tsimane Health and Life History Project: Integrating Anthropology and Biomedicine, Michael Gurven, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Aaron D. Blackwell, Bret Beheim, Helen Davis, Hillard Kaplan, and Paul L. Hooper

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The Welfare Effects of Civil Forfeiture, Michael Preciado and Bart J. Wilson

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Trust Me, Even Against Your Instinct, I Have Reflected Upon My Decision, Antonio Cabrales, Antonio M. Espín, Praveen Kujal, and Stephen J. Rassenti

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Who’s Holding Out? An Experimental Study of the Benefits and Burdens of Eminent Domain, Abel Winn and Matthew W. McCarter

Submissions from 2016

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An Epigenetic Clock Analysis of Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Coronary Heart Disease, Steve Horvath, Michael Gurven, Morgan E. Levine, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard Kaplan, Hooman Allayee, Beate R. Ritz, Brian Chen, Ake T. Lu, Tammy M. Rickabaugh, Beth D. Jamieson, Dianjianyi Sun, Shengxu Li, Wei Chen, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Maud Fagny, Michael S. Kobor, Philip S. Tsao, Alexander P. Reiner, Kerstin L. Edlefsen, Devin Absher, and Themistocles L. Assimes

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An Experimental Investigation of Procurement Auctions with Asymmetric Sellers, John Aloysius, Cary A. Deck, Li Hao, and Ryan French

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An Experimental Investigation of Simultaneous Multi-battle Contests with Complementarities, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Matt Wiser

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Angels and Demons: Using Behavioral Types in a Real-Effort Moral Dilemma to Identify Expert Traits, Hernan Bejerano, Ellen P. Green, and Stephen Rassenti

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Apolipoprotein E4 is Associated With Improved Cognitive Function in Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalists With a High Parasite Burden, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Aaron D. Blackwell, Hooman Allayee, Bret Beheim, Caleb E. Finch, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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Arousal and Economic Decision Making, Salar Jahedi, Cary Deck, and Dan Ariely

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Associations Between Male Testosterone and Immune Function in a Pathogenically Stressed Forager-Horticultural Population, Benjamin C. Trumble, Aaron D. Blackwell, Jonathan Stieglitz, Melissa Emery Thompson, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Benefit to Another at Cost to Self, Terence C. Burnham

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Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes in Evolutionary Perspective: A Critical Role for Helminths?, Michael D. Gurven, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Aaron D. Blackwell, David E. Michalik, Caleb E. Finch, and Hillard Kaplan

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Competition, Cost Innovation, and X-Inefficiency in Experimental Markets, Andrew Smyth

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Conflict Or Congruence? Maternal and Infant-Centric Factors Associated With Shorter Exclusive Breastfeeding Durations Among the Tsimane, Melanie A. Martin, Geni Garcia, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Economics and Evolutionary Mismatch: Humans in Novel Settings Do Not Maximize, Terence C. Burnham

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Evolutionary Behavioral Economics, Terence C. Burnham, Stephen E. G. Lea, Adrian V. Bell, Herbert Gintis, Paul W. Glimcher, Robert Kurzban, Leonhard Lades, Kevin McCabe, Karthik Panchanathan, Miriam Teschl, and Ulrich Witt

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Growth References for Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon, Aaron D. Blackwell, Samuel S. Urlacher, Bret Beheim, Christopher von Rueden, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan

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Health Costs of Reproduction are Minimal Despite High Fertility, Mortality and Subsistence Lifestyle, Michael Gurven, Megan Costa, Ben Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret Beheim, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Paul L. Hooper, and Hillard Kaplan

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High Resting Metabolic Rate Among Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalists Experiencing High Pathogen Burden, Michael Gurven, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Gandhi Yetish, Daniel Cummings, Aaron D. Blackwell, Bret Beheim, Hillard Kaplan, and Herman Pontzer

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Immune Function in Amazonian Horticulturalists, Aaron D. Blackwell, Benjamin C. Trumble, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Jonathan Stieglitz, Bret Beheim, J. Josh Snodgrass, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Indirect Reciprocity, Resource Sharing, and Environmental Risk: Evidence from Field Experiments in Siberia, E. Lance Howe, James J. Murphy, Drew Gerkey, and Colin Thor West

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Multi-Battle Contests: An Experimental Study, Shakun D. Mago and Roman M. Sheremeta

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On the Robustness of Higher Order Risk Preferences, Cary Deck and Harris Schlesinger

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Payment Scheme Self-Selection in the Credence Goods Market: An Experimental Study, Hernan Bejerano, Ellen P. Green, and Stephen Rassenti

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Principal–Agent Settings with Random Shocks, Jared Rubin and Roman Sheremeta

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Random Expected Utility and Certainty Equivalents: Mimicry of Probability Weighting Functions, Nathaniel Wilcox

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Reciprocal Exchange Patterned By Market Forces Helps Explain Cooperation in a Small-Scale Society, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Paul L. Hooper, Bret Beheim, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Religious Identity and the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Indian Princely States, Latika Chaudhary and Jared Rubin

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Response to De La Iglesia et al, Gandhi Yetish, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven, Brian Wood, Herman Pontzer, Paul R. Manger, Charles Wilson, Ronald McGregor, and Jerome M. Siegel

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Robert A. Millikan Meets the Credibility Revolution: Comment on Harrison (2013), "Field Experiments and Methodological Intolerance", Nathaniel T. Wilcox

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Salivary Microbiomes of Indigenous Tsimane Mothers and Infants are Distinct Despite Frequent Premastication, Cliff S. Han, Melanie Ann Martin, Armand E.K. Dichosa, Ashlynn R. Daughton, Seth Frietze, Hillard Kaplan, Michael D. Gurven, and Joe Alcock

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State Dependent Price Setting Rules Under Implicit Thresholds: An Experiment, Justin Deloy LeBlanc, Andrea Civelli, Cary A. Deck, and Klajdi Bregu

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Status Competition, Inequality, and Fertility: Implications for the Demographic Transition, Mary K. Shenk, Hillard Kaplan, and Paul L. Hooper

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The Effects of Alcohol Use on Economic Decision Making, Klajdi Bregu, Cary Deck, Lindsay Ham, and Salar Jahedi

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The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Weak Rule of Law, Timur Kuran and Jared Rubin

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Two Monetary Models with Alternating Markets, Gabriele Camera and Yili Chien

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Understanding Variation in Human Fertility: What Can We Learn From Evolutionary Demography?, Rebecca Sear, David W. Lawson, Hillard Kaplan, and Mary K. Shenk

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What Makes a Good Trader? On the Role of Intuition and Reflection on Trader Performance, Brice Corgnet, Mark DeSantis, and David Porter

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You are Close to Your Rival and Everyone Hates a Winner: A Study of Rivalry in College Football, Sarah Marx Quintanar, Cary Deck, Javier A. Reyes, and Sudipta Sarangi

Submissions from 2015

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Adam Smith: Homo Socialis, Yes; Social Preferences, No; Reciprocity Was to Be Explained, Vernon L. Smith

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Advancing the Understanding of Behavior in Social-Ecological Systems: Results from Lab and Field Experiments, Marco A. Janssen, Therese Lindahl, and James J. Murphy

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All-Pay 2 X 2 Hex: A Multibattle Contest With Complementarities, Dan Kovenock, Sudipta Sarangi, and Matt Wiser

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An Experimental Investigation Of Time Discounting In Strategic Settings, Cary Deck and Salar Jahedi

An Experiment On Retail Payments Systems, Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, and S. Bortolotti

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Are Subjects Making Financial Decisions in Lab Auctions or Are They Just Gambling?, Cary Deck, Jungmin Lee, and Javier Reyes

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Asymmetric and Endogenous Within-Group Communication in Competitive Coordination Games, Timothy N. Cason, Roman Sheremeta, and Jingjing Zhang

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Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound Indicates Reduced Bone Status Among Physically Active Adult Forager-Horticulturalists, Jonathan Stieglitz, Felicia C. Madimenos, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Challenging the Inevitability of Prostate Enlargement: Low Levels of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Among Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Daniel Eid Rodriguez, Edhitt Cortez Linares, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Cognitive Reflection and the Diligent Worker: An Experimental Study of Millennials, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, and Ricardo Mateo

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Commitment Problems In Conflict Resolution, Erik O. Kimbrough, Jared Rubin, Roman M. Sheremeta, and Timothy W. Shields

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Communication And Collusion, J. Harrington, Roberto Hernán González, and Praveen Kujal

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Conduct in Narrativized Trust Games, Jan Osborn, Bart J. Wilson, and Bradley R. Sherwood

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Conduct, Rules And The Origins Of Institutions, Vernon L. Smith

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Conflicted Emotions Following Trust-Based Interaction, Eric Schniter, Roman M. Sheremeta, and Timothy W. Shields

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Cyber-shilling in Automobile Auctions: Evidence from a Field Experiment, David Grether, David Porter, and Matthew Shum

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Defense Against An Opportunistic Challenger: Theory And Experiments, Cary Deck, Joshua Foster, and Hongwei Song

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Depression as Sickness Behavior? A Test of the Host Defense Hypothesis in a High Pathogen Population, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Melissa Emery Thompson, Aaron D. Blackwell, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Disfluent Fonts Don’t Help People Solve Math Problems, Andrew Meyer, Shane Frederick, Terence C. Burnham, Juan D. Guevera Pinto, Ty W. Boyer, Linden J. Ball, Gordon Pennycook, Rakefet Ackerman, Valerie A. Thompson, and Jonathon P. Schuldt

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Does Market Integration Buffer Risk, Erode Traditional Sharing Practices and Increase Inequality? a Test Among Bolivian Forager-Farmers, Michael Gurven, Adrian V. Jaeggi, Christopher von Rueden, Paul L. Hooper, and Hillard Kaplan

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Do Prediction Markets Aid Defenders In A Weak-Link Contest?, Cary Deck, Li Hao, and David Porter

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Dynamic Behavior and Player Types in Majoritarian Multi-Battle Contests, Alan Gelder and Dan Kovenock

Dynamic Directed Search, Gabriele Camera and Jaehong Kim

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Dynamic Optimization and Conformity in Health Behavior and Life Enjoyment Over the Life Cycle, Hernán D. Bejarano, Hillard Kaplan, and Stephen Rassenti

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Experimental Evolution and Economics, Terence C. Burnham, Aimee Dunlap, and David W. Stephens

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Firing Threats And Tenure In Virtual Organizations: Incentives Effects And Impression Management, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán González, and Stephen Rassenti

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Four Steps Toward The Control Of Aging: Following The Example Of Infectious Disease, Michael R. Rose, Larry G. Cabral, James N. Kezos, Thomas T. Barter, Mark A. Phillips, Barbara L. Smith, and Terence C. Burnham

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Further Towards a Theory of the Emergence of Property, Bart J. Wilson

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Gender Differences In Cooperation And Competition, Roberto Hernán González and Praveen Kujal

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Give The FDA Some Competition With Free To Choose Medicine, Bartley J. Madden and Vernon Smith

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Goal Setting and Monetary Incentives: When Large Stakes Are Not Enough, Brice Corgnet, Joaquín Gómez-Miñambres, and Roberto Hernán-González

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Helminth Infection, Fecundity, and Age of First Pregnancy in Women, Aaron D. Blackwell, Marilyne D. Tamayo, Bret Beheim, Benjamin C. Trumble, Jonathan Stieglitz, Paul L. Hooper, Melanie Martin, Hillard Kaplan, and Michael Gurven

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Humankind in Civilization’s Extended Order: A Tragedy, The First Part, Bart J. Wilson

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Inclusive Fitness and Differential Productivity Across the Life Course Determine Intergenerational Transfers in a Small-Scale Human Society, Paul L. Hooper, Michael Gurven, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan

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Information Asymmetry And Deception, Irma Clots-Figueras, Roberto Hernán González, and Praveen Kujal

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Information Sharing In Contests, Dan Kovenock, Florian Morath, and Johannes Münster

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Language and Cooperation in Hominin Scavenging, Bart J. Wilson and Samuel R. Harris

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Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-Industrial Societies, Gandhi Yetish, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven, Brian Wood, Herman Pontzer, Paul R. Manger, Charles Wilson, Ronald McGregor, and Jerome M. Siegel

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Peer Pressure and Moral Hazard in Teams: Experimental Evidence, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, and Stephen Rassenti

Performance-Based Compensation And Firm Value – Experimental Evidence, Glenn Pfeiffer and Timothy W. Shields

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Performance Benefits Of Reward Choice: A Procedural Justice Perspective, Arran Caza, Matthew W. McCarter, and Gregory B. Northcraft

Reducing Choice Overload without Reducing Choices, Tibor Besedeš, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi, and Mikhael Shor

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Risky Business: An Analysis Of Teacher Risk Preferences, Daniel H. Bowen, Stuart Buck, Cary Deck, Jonathan N. Mills, and James V. Shuls

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Salivary Oxytocin Increases Concurrently With Testosterone and Time Away From Home Among Returning Tsimane' Hunters, Paul L. Hooper, Kathryn Demps, Michael Gurven, Drew Gurkey, and Hillard Kaplan

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Selective Recognition: How to Recognize Donors to Increase Charitable Giving, Anya Samek and Roman Sheremeta