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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...

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

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Is Trust a Bad Investment?

Ashraf, Nava; Bohnet, Iris; Piankov, Nikita - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004

This paper examines whether trust is an investment decision under uncertainty, based on the expectation of … trustworthiness, and whether trustworthiness is reciprocity, conditional on one?s counterpart?s behavior. In trust experiments in … Russia, South Africa and the United States, two thirds of the subjects who trust do not expect trust to pay monetarily. We …

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Wallflowers Doing Good: Field and Lab Evidence of Heterogeneity in Reputation Concerns

Jones, Daniel; Linardi, Sera - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2012

An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...

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Giving, taking, and gender in dictator games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young; Saha, Bibhas - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014

We investigate whether a pure framing has any effect on the decisions made in a dictator game. We run a between subject dictator game with a giving and a taking frame whilst keeping the strategy space the same. Complying with the literature we find no overall difference in the amount allocated...

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Are women expected to be more generous?

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Aguiar, Fernando; Jiménez, Natalia; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2007

This paper analyzes if men and women are expected to behave dif- ferently regarding altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a modi.ed version to study the beliefs involved in the game. Our results are...

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Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?

Cadsby, C. Bram; Servátka, Maros; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

Employing a two-by-two factorial design that manipulates whether dictator groups are single or mixed-sex and whether procedures are single or double-blind, we examine gender effects in a standard dictator game. No gender effects were found in any of the experimental treatments. Moreover, neither...

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Deeds rather than omissions: How intended consequences provoke negative reciprocity

Schubert, Manuel - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2012

Intention-based models of reciprocity argue that people assess kindness by measuring the intended consequences of actual behavior (deeds) against foregone payoffs resulting from unchosen alternatives (omissions). While the effects of omissions have been intensively studied in recent years, less...

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Gender differences and stereotypes in the beauty contest

Cubel, María; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014

Recent literature has emphasized that individuals display different depths of reasoning when playing games. In this paper, we explore gender differences in strategic sophistication and study whether these differences are endogenous. We report results from two different experiments employing the...

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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding

Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid...

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