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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?
Johnsen, Åshild - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043209
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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/10012910745
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2016
preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997075
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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision : Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding
Scharf, Kimberley A. - 2013
We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607
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Altruistic Punishment in Elections
Aimone, Jason Anthony; Butera, Luigi; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021
simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315578
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095928
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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow : The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
Costa-Font, Joan - 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/10013122126
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2013
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753831