Weißmüller, Kristina Sabrina (2021). Publicness and micro-level risk behaviour: experimental evidence on stereotypical discounting behaviour. Public Management Review, 24(4), pp. 601-630. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/14719037.2020.1862287
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Anti-public stereotypes suggest that public agents are more likely to shun risk and tolerate delay vis-à-vis private agents. Based on context dependency of administrative behaviour, this study reports experimental evidence from 22,800 choice tasks exploring the effects of publicness as a mental frame for individual risk judgement. Decision makers are not automatically triggered to deviate from predicted economic discounting behaviour when switching from a public to a private sector context. However, public sector employees in this sample systematically overestimate risks and tolerate delay in rewards compared with the general population, tentatively linking public sector affiliation with biases in risk behaviour.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
11 Centers of Competence > KPM Center for Public Management |
UniBE Contributor: |
Weissmüller, Kristina Sabrina |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 350 Public administration & military science |
ISSN: |
1471-9037 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Kristina Sabrina Weissmüller |
Date Deposited: |
04 Feb 2021 16:33 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:45 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/14719037.2020.1862287 |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Publicness; risk behaviour; probability discounting; delay discounting; behavioural public administration |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/151529 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/151529 |
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