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Social preferences under uncertainty
Gaudeul, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
's position vis-`a-vis others. Taking a bet can improve one's position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …
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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I: Theory
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
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Social Relations and Relational Incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …
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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II: Experimental Evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
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Unraveling Fairness in Simple Games? The Role of Empathy and Theory of Mind
Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Fillipos; Sääksvuori, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...
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Leniency Bias in Long-Term Workplace Relationships
Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
altruism sometimes provides a net incentive to report performance truthfully, rather than to bias evaluations upward. The …
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
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