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We combine information on social networks with medical records and survey data in order to examine how friends affect one’s decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large private university allows us to estimate how peer...
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involving a commitment. The hypothesis is tested in a large-scale field experiment on blood donations. We find that this “active …
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social distances, but only one of these decisions is implemented. We decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism … towards strangers, and directed altruism towards friends. In order to separate the motives that are altruistic from the ones … the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment, and a non-anonymous treatment where both players are …
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There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in … donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning three months and involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine two …
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results, yet it is straightforward enough to be used in many applied situations where altruism, or a baser motive, is implied. …
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I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of individuals who offer an...
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The authors extend the standard public goods game in a variety of ways, in particular by allowing for endogenous preference over institutions and by studying the relationship between individual types, their preferences, and later behavior within the various institutional environments. They...
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