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Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Behavioural economists have come to recognize that reciprocity, the interaction of trust and trustworthiness, is a … principally due to observed decisions in experimental ‘trust games’. However, recent research has cast doubt on the explanatory … power of trust as a determinant of those decisions, suggesting that altruism may explain much of what ‘looks like’ trust …
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Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...
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We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them - as well as subjects' elicited beliefs - to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly. We find...
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We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....
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Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
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Venezuelans and improved some attitudes, but only the game significantly increased self-reported trust. …
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and political trust both lead to fiscal policy preferences that constrain effective redistribution. Electoral …
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common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or …
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Using a standard trust game, we elicit trust and reciprocity measures in a representative sample of adult players in … other Latin American countries. We find no statistically significant differences in trust levels of Uruguayans towards …
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