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Social networks and vaccination decisions

Rao, Neel; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2007

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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Active decisions and pro-social behavior

Stutzer, Alois; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Michael - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2007

In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent to or dissent from some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of whether to engage in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the...

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How much is a friend worth?: directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks

Leider, Stephen; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2007

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 … that decision-makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends as …

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Blood donations and incentives: evidence from a field experiment

Goette, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2008

There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning...

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Games with synergistic preferences

Jamison, Julian C. - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2011

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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Minimally acceptable altruism and the ultimatum game

Rotemberg, Julio J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2006

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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