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We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
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The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...
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individual level using multiple methods, and at multiple times during the experiment. With this rich set of predictor variables …
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whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …
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experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …
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We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
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We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
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In this experiment, we test whether subjects’ responses to variations in the action set in a dictator game depends on …
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reconsiders the generality of both explanations. Using data from a public goods experiment with punishment, conducted by the …
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