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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...

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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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Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

Cameron, Lisa A.; Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

trustworthiness. For risk and competitive preferences, our results are gender-specific. These results have important implications for …

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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...

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Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?

Koch, Alexander K.; Normann, Hans-Theo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Bhalotra, Sonia; Soest, Arthur van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations …,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available …. Information on sterilization is used to identify an equation for completion of family formation that is needed to account for …

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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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