Johannes Abeler

TL;DR: The authors found that effort provision is significantly different between treatments in the way predicted by models of expectation-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations were low.

TL;DR: This paper found that effort provision is significantly different between treatments in the way predicted by models of expectation-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations were low.

TL;DR: The authors show that people lie surprisingly little and that a preference for being seen as honest is one of the main motivations for truth-telling in economics, psychology, and sociology, and formalize a wide range of potential explanations for the observed behavior and identify testable predictions that can distinguish between the models.

TL;DR: This article measured the extent of lying costs among a representative sample of the German population by calling them at home and found that participants have a clear monetary incentive to misreport, misreporting cannot be detected, reputational concerns are negligible and altruism, efficiency concerns or conditional cooperation cannot play a role.

TL;DR: Investigation of the user acceptability of a contact-tracing app in five countries hit by the COVID-19 pandemic found strong support for the app under both regimes, in all countries, across all subgroups of the population, and irrespective of regional-level CO VID-19 mortality rates.