A comparison of salient rewards in experiments: Money and class points

Economics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 113-117

  Brown Kruse, Jamie ^a   Thompson, Mark A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C91; D81; Experiment; Gender; Low probability risk; Risk mitigation; Salient reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035602913     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00530-4     Document Type: Article

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