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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014

We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

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A Nationwide Laboratory Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioural Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Schupp, Jürgen; von … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly …

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Choosing the carrot or the stick? ? Endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations

Sutter, Matthias; Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für …

We analyze an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...

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Conditional cooperation on three continents

Kocher, Martin G.; Cherry, Todd L.; Kroll, Stephan; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2007

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral …

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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We analyse an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...

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The excess burden of tax evasion – An experimental detection-concealment contest

Bayer, Ralph-C; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003

We present an experimental study on the wasted resources associated with tax evasion. This waste arises from taxpayers and tax authorities, investing costly effort in concealment, respectively detect ion, of tax evasion. We show that (socially inefficient) efforts depend positively on the...

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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals

Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; Wallmeier, Niklas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …

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Smiling is a Costly Signal of Cooperation Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from a Trust Game

Centorrino, Samuele; Djemai, Elodie; Hopfensitz, Astrid; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We test the hypothesis that "genuine" or "convincing" smiling is a costly signal that has evolved to induce cooperation in situations requiring mutual trust. Potential trustees in a trust game made video clips for viewing by potential trusters before the latter decided whether to send them...

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Inequality Aversion and Voting on Redistribution

Hoechtl, Wolfgang; Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011

Mounting evidence shows that there is heterogeneity in aversion to inequality, i.e. that some people have a concern for a fair distribution. Does such a concern matter for majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair voters are...

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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...

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