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Doing good with other people’s money: A charitable giving experiment with students in environmental sciences and economics
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others’ choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, environmental economists, and environmental social scientists. We find that...
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Is Fair Trade Honey Sweeter? An empirical analysis on the effect of affiliation on productivity
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
We evaluate the impact of affiliation to Fair Trade on a sample of Chilean honey producers. Evidence from standard regressions and propensity score matching shows that affiliated farmers have higher productivity (income from honey per worked hour) than the control sample. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413378
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Global environmental problems, efficiency and limited altruism
Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004
Global environmental problems are often assumed to imply extensive inefficiencies since there is no global authority corresponding to the government at a national level. This paper shows, on the contrary, that rich countries in a free unregulated market may still undertake globally efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651775
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568487
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Budget-Balance, Fairness and Minimal Manipulability
ANDERSSON, Tommy; EHLERS, Lars; SVENSSON, Lars-Gunnar - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2010
group of agents. Fairness requires that each agent weakly prefers his consumption bundle to any other agent’s bundle. Under … fairness, efficiency is equivalent to budget-balance (all the available money is allocated among the agents). Budget …-balance and fairness in general are incompatible with non-manipulability (Green and Laffont, 1979). We propose a new notion of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933673
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Social Choice: Recent Developments
BOSSERT, Walter; WEYMARK, J.A. - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to...
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Sharing the Cost of a Public Good: an Incentive-Constrained Axiomatic Approach
SPRUMONT, Yves; MANIQUET, François - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2006
partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties …
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Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about the causes of …
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Are Social Preferences Skin Deep? Dictators under Cognitive Load
Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Johansson, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
We study the impact of cognitive load in dictator games to test two conflicting views of moral behavior. Are social preferences skindeep in the sense that they are the result of humans’ cognitive reasoning while the natural instinct is selfish, or is rather the natural instinct to share fairly...
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In the back of your mind: Subliminal influences of religious concepts on prosocial behavior
Ahmed, Ali M.; Salas, Osvaldo - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
Does religion enhance prosocial behavior? We investigate the ways in which implicit influences of religious concepts affect generosity and cooperation. In contrast to previous studies, we assess the direct impact of religion as an independent variable on prosocial behavior. We do so by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651804