We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

We study with 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 to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice …

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint … decision is typically determined by the husband, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in …

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure …. 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 …