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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
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Beliefs and truth-telling: A laboratory experiment
Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
’ first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust … believe the receiver expects them to tell the truth. We observe no such dependence on second-order beliefs in a payoff … equivalent game of matching pennies. Our results therefore indicate an impact of second-order beliefs as derived in models of …
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Daniela R?tzler - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
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Resource scarcity, spite and cooperation
Prediger, Sebastian; Vollan, Bjoern; Herrmann, Benedikt - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
cooperate and to engage in antisocial behaviour. The experiments were carried out with pastoralists from southern Namibia whose …
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Thar she bursts - Reducing confusion reduces bubbles
Kirchler, Michael; Huber, Juergen; Stoeckl, Thomas - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
To explore why bubbles frequently emerge in the experimental asset market model of Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988), we vary the fundamental value process (constant or declining) and the cash-to-asset value-ratio (constant or increasing). We observe high mispricing in treatments with a...
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Distributional Preferences and Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
We study experimentally the relationship between distributional preferences and competitive behavior. We find that spiteful subjects react strongest to competitive pressure and win in a tournament significantly more often than efficiency-minded and inequality averse subjects. However, when given...
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