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Preferences for redistribution and pensions: What can we learn from experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
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Asymmetric obligations
Riedel, Nadine; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2011
We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the behavioral effects of obligations that are not backed by binding … and asymmetric minimum contribution levels (obligations) in a repeated public goods experiment. The results provide …
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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments: An Experiment in a Company
Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...
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"Let Them Eat Cake": Drought, Peasant Uprisings, and Demand for Institutional Change in the French Revolution
Waldinger, Maria - 2023
The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...
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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd out Prosocial Behavior?
Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kvaløy, Ola - 2014
In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...
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Dimensions of Donation Preferences: The Structure of Peer and Income Effects
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments …
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Eliciting Preferences for Risk and Altruism: Experimental Evidence
Gauriot, Romain; Heger, Stephanie A.; Slonim, Robert - 2022
literature to the literature on social preferences. Following Andersen et al. (2008), we design a laboratory experiment to … jointly elicit risk preferences and preferences for altruism. Consistent with theory, we find that the standard simplifying … assumptions about risk preferences lead to significantly biased estimates of altruism. This is particularly problematic when …
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Generosity Across Contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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Do Gender Preference Gaps Impact Policy Outcomes?
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017
laboratory experiment to provide a test of such a connection. In small laboratory “societies,” people repeatedly vote for a …
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory. Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
with 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 …
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