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Does Competition Affect Giving? An Experimental Study
Duffy, John; Kornienko, Tatiana - EconWPA - 2005
laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062728
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Individual Preferences for Giving
Fisman, Raymond; Kariv, Shachar; Markovits, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reports an experimental test of individual preferences for giving. We use graphical representations of modified Dictator Games that vary the price of giving. This generates a very rich data set well- suited to studying behavior at the level of the individual subject. We test the data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118605
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When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation
Houser, Daniel; Xiao, Erte; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2005
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...
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Social norms and human cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining their content, and the cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076756
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Trust among Strangers
Ho, Teck-Hua; Weigelt, Keith - EconWPA - 2005
The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407592
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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
Our study concerns bargaining behavior in situations where one party is in a stronger position than the other. We investigate both the tradeoff the favored party makes between pursuing his strategic advantage and giving weight to other players' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the...
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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004
instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing controls on individual fixed effects, we find strong evidence of altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076542
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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma
Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002
Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077070
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Two-sided altruism, Lindahl Equilibrium, and Pareto Optimality in Overlapping Generations Models
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996
, recasting it into a Lindahl equilibrium framework. It has been shown that altruism towards parents provides an alternative … a sufficiently strong altruism towards parents can change a Pareto inefficient Samuelsonian economy with negative … proposes an ethical principle to supplement the equilibrium theory for guiding agents in their choice of the degree of altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125689
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What do gifts buy? A model of philanthropy and tithing based on prestige and warm glow.
Harbaugh, William T. - EconWPA - 1996
Charities publicize the donations they receive, generally according to dollar categories rather than the exact amount. Donors in turn tend to give the minimum amount necessary to get into a category. These facts suggest that donors have a taste for having their donations made public. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125886