IZA Workshop: Behavioral Labor Economics

Thursday, October 16:

14:00	-	14:15		Welcome by Daniel Hamermesh (IZA Director of Research and University of Texas at Austin)
14:15	-	15:00		Uri Gneezy (University of California, San Diego), Ayelet Gneezy (University of California, San Diego)
				"Name Your Own Price: On Fairness in Markets"
15:00	-	15:45		Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt), Susanne Neckermann (University of Zurich)
				"Working for Nothing? The Effect of Non-Material Awards on Employee Performance"
15:45	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	17:30		Short Presentations I: Reference Dependent Preferences
				Johannes Abeler (University of Nottingham), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA), Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and IZA), David Huffman (Swarthmore College and IZA)
				"Reference Points and Effort Provision"
				Kirk Doran (University of Notre Dame)
				"The Existence and Position of Daily Income Reference Points: Implications for Daily Labor Supply"
				Lisa Shu (Harvard University), Carey K. Morewedge (Carnegie Mellon University), Daniel T. Gilbert (Harvard University), Timothy D. Wilson (University of Virginia)
				"Is the Endowment Effect Due to Loss Aversion or Mere Ownership?"
				Steffen Altmann (IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA)
				"The Impact of Cooperation Defaults on Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods"
17:30	-	18:15		Francis Tapon (University of Guelph), Bram Cadsby (University of Guelph), Fei Song (Ryerson University)
				"Are You Paying Your Employees to Cheat? An Experimental Investigation"

Friday, October 17:

09:00	-	09:45		Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics), Magnus Johannesson (Stockholm School of Economics), Sara Munkhammar (Ramböll Management), Johanna Möllerström (Harvard University)
				"Why Labels Affect Cooperation"
09:45	-	10:30		Stephen V. Burks (University of Minnesota, Morris), Jon Anderson (University of Minnesota, Morris), Jeffrey Carpenter (Middlebury College and IZA), Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and IZA), Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota)
				"Cognitive Skills Predict Economic Preferences, Social Awareness, Job Attachment, and Accident Risk Among Truckers"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	12:30		Short Presentations II: Trust, Risk and Intertemporal Choice - Evidence from Non-Traditional Subject Pools
				Bart H.H. Golsteyn (Maastricht University), Lex Borghans (Maastricht University and IZA), James J. Heckman (University of Chicago and IZA), Huub Meijers (Maastricht University)
				"Gender, Personality Traits and the Ellsberg Paradox"
				Zhong Zhao (IZA), Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (University of Houston and IZA), Mutlu Yuksel (IZA)
				"Risk and Trust Attitudes, Locus of Control and WWII Destruction"
				Angela C. Milano de Oliveira (University of Texas at Dallas), Rachel Croson (University of Texas at Dallas), Catherine Eckel (University of Texas at Dallas)
				"Are Preferences Stable Across Domains? An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in the Field"
				Erin L. Krupka (IZA)
				"Eliciting Subjective Discount Rates: Monthly Patterns of Impatience Among the Very Poor"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	14:45		Kristof Madarasz (London School of Economics)
				"Information Projection: Model and Applications"
14:45	-	16:15		Short Presentations III: Information and Incentives
				Julia Schmid (Technical University of Berlin), Fehr, Dietmar (Technical University Berlin)
				"Distributing Two Prizes in the All-Pay Auction"
				Christian Traxler (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Gerlinde Fellner (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna), Rupert Sausgruber (University of Innsbruck)
				"Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information - Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field"
				Alwine Mohnen (University of Cologne), Kathrin Pokorny (University of Cologne)
				"Is Honesty the Best Policy? An Experimental Study on the Honesty of Feedback in Employer-Employee Relationships"
				Matthias Wibral (University of Bonn)
				"The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde, Mr. Hyde1, and Mr. Hyde2 - Experimental Evidence on Reputation Systems and Pseudonym Changes"
16:15	-	16:45		Coffee Break
16:45	-	17:30		Takao Kato (Colgate University), Pian Shu (MIT)
				"Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm"
19:00				Conference Dinner

Saturday, October 18:

09:00	-	09:45		Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne), Patrick Kampkötter (University of Cologne)
				"The Power of Differentiation? - An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans"
09:45	-	10:30		Sera Linardi (California Institute of Technology), Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
				"Experimental Worker-Firm Relational Contracting in the Presence of Economic Downturns"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	-	12:30		Short Presentations IV: Reciprocity and Labor Market Behavior
				Michel Maréchal (University of Zurich), Sebastian Kube (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Clemens Puppe (University of Karlsruhe)
				"The Currency of Reciprocity - Gift-Exchange in the Workplace"
				Andreas Nicklisch (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Tobias Salz (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
				"Reciprocity and Status in a Virtual Field Experiment"
				Alain Cohn (University of Zurich), Lorenz Goette (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and IZA), Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich and IZA)
				"Fairness and Effort - Evidence from a Field Experiment"
				Florian Englmaier (University of Munich), Stephen Leider (Harvard University)
				"Contractual and Organizational Structure with Reciprocal Agents"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	14:45		Andrew J. Oswald (University of Warwick), Liam Graham (University College London)
				"Hedonic Capital, Adaptation and Resilience"
14:45	-	15:30		Bernd Weber (University Clinic Bonn)
				"Social Preferences and the Brain"
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	17:30		Short Presentations V: Social Comparison
				Konstanze Albrecht (University of Bonn)
				"Decision-Making for Self and Other"
				Daniele Nosenzo (University of Nottingham), Simon Gaechter (University of Nottingham and IZA), Martin Sefton (University of Nottingham)
				"The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity"
				Sabrina Teyssier (CNRS, GATE)
				"Experimental Evidence on Inequity Aversion and Self-Selection between Incentive Contracts"
				Alpaslan Akay (IZA), Peter Martinsson (University of Gothenburg)
				"Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia"