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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others’ interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...
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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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Prosociality, Political Identity, and Redistribution of Earned Income : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit - 2018
that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower …
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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...
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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...
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The Bonus-Income Donation Norm
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019
Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
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Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism
Nesje, Frikk - 2022
cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism, saving for one’s descendants benefits present members of other dynasties. These …
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Altruism Begets Altruism
Heger, Stephanie; Slonim, Robert - 2022
Guided by Bem’s (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e ….g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism “now” and … show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving “later”; that is, altruism begets altruism …
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Morality, Altruism, and Occupation Choice : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …
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