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Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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principal-agent experiment that shows that consistency is valued by others and that this value is anticipated. The second … experiment underlines the crucial role of early commitment for consistency preferences. Finally we show how preferences for …
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To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
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individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution. This paper reviews experimental evidence on preferences regarding redistribution and asks what this evidence...
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and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than …
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choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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subjectively-colored, recollection of the initial ultimatum game experiment, its motivation and the immediate responses. Second, we …
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We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic … others’ statements of confidence about how well they have scored on an IQ test. In two-player tournaments where the highest … score wins, one is likely to enter at equilibrium when he knows that his stated confidence is higher than the other player …
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