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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
model with only three types captures the bulk of the information about subjects’ social preferences …
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Prosociality, Political Identity, and Redistribution of Earned Income : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit - 2018
We explore the relation between social political identity and prosociality. We first construct a theoretical model to generate predictions for the behavior of players in an ultimatum game who are influenced by social political identity. Then we use a novel subject pool-registered members of...
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Does Revealing Personality Data Affect Prosocial Behavior?
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured … information for disagreeable individuals has detrimental effects on their pro-social behaviour as compared to the baseline no-information … information cues about personality significantly affect economic behaviour and have implications for employees’ personality …
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Lying and Reciprocity
Dato, Simon - 2019
’s information on the first movers lying behavior. This allows us to derive predictions on the second mover’s behavior which we test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892217
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Trust, Happiness, and Pro-Social Behavior
Carattini, Stefano - 2020
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822497
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Rent Extraction and Prosocial Behavior
Cagala, Tobias - 2019
We present controlled experimental evidence on how rent extraction by an administrator affects giving to non-profit associations. Holding the price of giving constant, we compare contributions between two conditions: a rent extraction condition, in which an administrator can expropriate a part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861465
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Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior : Some Experimental Evidence
Cabrales, Antonio - 2020
Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate the demand for different levels of institutions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832187
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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation
Baader, Malte; Gaechter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077010
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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264453
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the … information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed optimal. To the contrary, when local knowledge is more important than the …
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