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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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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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While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … compared to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in … trust. Finally, we find consistent evidence of peer effects: higher levels of peer compliance raise future compliance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345629
A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...
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A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347829
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness …
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