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Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - 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...

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Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability

Leight, Jessica - 2018

are characterized by multifaceted social preferences, encompassing reciprocity, altruism, and inequality aversion …

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Self-Signaling and Prosocial Behavior : a Cause Marketing Mobile Field Experiment

Dubé, Jean-Pierre - 2015

crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …

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Interdependent Preferences and the Mitigation of Market Failure

Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I consider the effect of caring, empathy, altruism or positive reciprocity towards others - which I collectively call … the public good converges to the efficient level. An increase in caring, empathy, altruism or positive reciprocity, an … efficiently is attributable to lack of empathy/altruism/positive reciprocity as well as to the free rider problem …

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Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences

Kaplow, Louis - 2008

Optimal policy rules--including those regarding income taxation, commodity taxation, public goods, and externalities--are typically derived in models with homogeneous preferences. This article reconsiders many central results for the case in which preferences for commodities, public goods, and...

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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...

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Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences

Kolstad, Charles D. - 2011

Why cooperation occurs when noncooperation appears to be individually rational has been an issue in economics for at least a half century. In the 1960's and 1970's the context was cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game; in the 1980's concern shifted to voluntary provision of public goods; in...

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Ends versus Means : Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions

Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...

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Gun For Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

Andreoni, James - 2011

This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....

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Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …

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