Similar Search Results

Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game

Baran, Nicole M. - 2010

We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462996

International Environmental Agreements among Heterogeneous Countries with Social Preferences

Kolstad, Charles D. - 2014

Achieving efficiency for many global environmental problems requires voluntary cooperation among sovereign countries due to the public good nature of pollution abatement. The theory of international environmental agreements (IEAs) in economics seeks to understand how cooperation among countries...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458462

Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity

Alfaro, Laura - 2020

In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481717

Bargaining Around the Hearth

Pollak, Robert A. - 2007

In "Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth" (Yale Law Journal, 2006) Robert Ellickson argues that as long as members of a household expect their relationship to continue, norms, rather than law, will determine allocations among them. More specifically, Ellickson...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465511

Two-sided Altruism and Signaling

Genicot, Garance - 2015

This paper shows that when donors and recipients care about each other --two-sided altruism -- the presence of … information regarding the donor's income generates a signaling game in the presence of two-sided altruism. These signaling games … put upward pressure on transfers and this pressure increases with the altruism of the recipient …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457358

Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others

Tella, Rafael Di - 2010

In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of the recipient's tokens,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462011

The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids … communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462283

It Hurts To Ask

Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388842

Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty

Burger, Nicholas E. - 2009

The literature on voluntary provision of public goods includes recent theoretical work on the formation of voluntary coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the emergence of coalitions, their size, and how...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463106

An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science : With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi - 2017

begin by reporting results from an experiment in which we investigate how cooperation in allocation games is affected by the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455346