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Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?
Koch, Alexander K.; Normann, Hans-Theo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether "fair" behavior is inspired by regard for others or is explained by external forces. To test for the importance of external pressure we...
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Why Are Economics Students More Selfish than the Rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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Income Transfers, Welfare and Family Decisions
Andaluz, Joaquín; Marcén, Miriam; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
stage, determines the optimum level of the transfer within a relationship of one-sided altruism. In the second stage, the … compensatory way in an altruism model. …
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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
that ultimate theories of kin selection, reciprocal altruism, costly signalling and indirect reciprocity do not provide …
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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers
Bigoni, Maria; Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in overall cooperation rates, strategy adoption and use of punishment opportunities. Students cooperate...
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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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