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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
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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Altruism and fairness in experimental decisions
Kohler, Stefan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 1, pp. 101-109
Experimental evidence from dictator games and simple choice situations indicates concerns for fairness and social welfare in human decision making. At the same time, models of inequality averse agents fail to explain the experimental data of individuals who reduce their payoff below a fair split...
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Are dictators averse to inequality?
Korenok, Oleg; Millner, Edward L.; Razzolini, Laura - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 543-547
We present the results of an experiment designed to identify more clearly the motivation underlying dictators’ behavior. In the typical dictator game, recipients are given no endowment. We give an endowment to the recipient as well as the dictator. This new dimension allows us to test directly...
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 319-330
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2021
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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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments
Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008
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....
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Betrayal aversion versus principled trustfulness—How to explain risk avoidance and risky choices in trust games
Fetchenhauer, Detlef; Dunning, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 534-541
Are decisions in a trust game more or less sensitive to changes in risk than decisions in a purely financial, non …-social decision-making task? Participants in a binary trust game (they could either keep $5 for sure or give it to a trustee with the … 80 percent and then were asked to decide whether to trust that other person. In addition, participants made a decision in …
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Signs and (counter)signals of trustworthiness
Gambetta, Diego; Székely, Áron - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 281-297
trust game. Subjects play a dictator game unaware that later they will play a trust game and that their level of generosity … in the dictator game will be revealed to trusters, with some inaccuracy, before trusters decide whether to trust or not …
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Racial differences in inequality aversion: Evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game
Griffin, John; Nickerson, David; Wozniak, Abigail - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 2, pp. 600-617
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of these groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game. We focus on...
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Would you mind if I get more? An experimental study of the envy game
Casal, Sandro; Güth, Werner; Jia, Mofei; Ploner, Matteo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 857-865
Envy is often the cause of mutually harmful outcomes. We experimentally study the impact of envy in a bargaining setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the size of the pie to be shared with a responder, whose share...
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