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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086478
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761956
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667864
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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
to financial incentives using an online real effort experiment. We find that social incentives lead to a 20% rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959558
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is barely any evidence for Germany. This study adds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959740
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory
Barmettler, Franziska; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many economic domains. However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283588
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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Meier, Stephan; Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper experimentally examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and wellregarded by others - as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763864
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two groups. If anything, the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836682
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Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Goette, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning three months and involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566537
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Still Not Allowed on the Bus: It Matters If You're Black or White!
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We employ a natural field experiment to study the extent and nature of racial discrimination in Queensland, Australia …
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