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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w30349 |
来源ID | Working Paper 30349 |
Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions | |
Marcel Fafchamps; Bereket Kebede | |
发表日期 | 2022-08-15 |
出版年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and equity in different agency structures. In terms of equity, subjects appropriate all surplus when they can, and share equally when they have to negotiate. They achieve high efficiency in general, albeit less so when the allocation of surplus is negotiated and negotiations fail. Allocative efficiency is reduced by input and output endowment effects, particularly in negotiated allocation games where subjects seek to create a sense of entitlement over joint surplus so as to achieve a more equitable income distribution. We find few differences across gender or gender pairings. Subjects are then given a choice between negotiating, paying to decide alone, or be paid to let their assigned partner decide. We find that demand for agency or delegation is sensitive to the price of agency, irrespective of gender. But female subjects are more likely to delegate to their partner if it is a male. We also find that a large fraction of both male and female subjects show a preference for negotiating that appears intrinsically motivated. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30349 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/588022 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcel Fafchamps,Bereket Kebede. Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions. 2022. |
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