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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015
We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008
We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....
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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy
Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice
Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - CESifo - 2013
We empirically investigate the effect of social preferences on portfolio choice. We use administrative investor data and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than (biased) risk-return expectations are predictive for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734704
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Doing good with other people's money: A charitable giving experiment with students in environmental sciences and economics
Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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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Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?
Koch, Alexander K.; Normann, Hans-Theo - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2005
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether “fair” behavior is inspired by regard for others or is explained by external forces. To test for the importance of external pressure we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784827
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Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh : State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009
Using longitudinal data of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh, covering the time period 1982 – 2005, and exploiting dynamic panel data models, we analyze siblings’ death at infancy, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and a causal effect of death...
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Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Surveillance Data in Matlab, Bangladesh
van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
previous child, and the family’s gender composition. Birth spacing is driven by contraceptive use and other factors. We find …Abstract: Analyzing the effect of family planning on child survival remains an important issue but is not … straightforward because of several mechanisms linking family planning, birth intervals, total fertility, and child survival. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090308
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Birth Spacing, Child Survival and Fertility Decisions : Analysis of Causal Mechanismsa
van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: We jointly analyze infant mortality, birth spacing, and total fertility of children in a rural area in … that if families would behave as if their all children were sons, fertility levels would be reduced by 3.5% and 5.7% in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090978
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Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India : Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity
van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005
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