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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908656
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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...
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Communication and Social Preferences : An Experimental Analysis
Cabrales, Antonio; Feri, Francesco; Gottardi, Piero; … - 2021
This paper reports on experiments regarding cheap talk games where senders attempt deception when their interests are not in conflict with those of the receiver. The amount of miscommunication is higher than in previous experimental findings on cheap talk games in situations where senders’ and...
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The Bonus-Income Donation Norm
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858205
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Pawns and Queens Revisited : Public Provision of Private Goods When Individuals Make Mistakes
Pirttila, Jukka; Tenhunen, Sanna - 2021
This paper analyses the optimal tax policy and public provision of private goods when individuals differ in two respects: income-earning ability and rationality. Publicly provided goods should be overprovided or subsidised, relative to the decentralised optimum, if society's marginal valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318503
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Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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Not all incentives wash out the warm glow: The case of blood donation revisited
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - 2011
The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277376
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Noblesse oblige?: determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled …
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Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...
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