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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...
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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre - 2016
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …
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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms
Reuben, Ernesto; Van Winden, F. A. A. M. - 2021
This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...
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Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks : how much is a friend worth?
Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007
an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …
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Testing motives for charitable giving : a revealed-preference methodology with experimental evidence
Deb, Rahul; Gazzale, Robert S.; Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2012
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Motivated errors
Exley, Christine L.; Kessler, Judd B. - 2019
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Econographics
Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018
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Bargaining around the hearth
Pollak, Robert A. - 2007
In "Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights Around the Hearth" (Yale Law Journal, 2006) Robert Ellickson argues that as long as members of a household expect their relationship to continue, norms, rather than law, will determine allocations among them. More specifically, Ellickson...
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Predicting social tipping and norm change in controlled experiments
Andreoni, James; Nikiforakis, Nikos; Siegenthaler, Simon - 2020
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Social image and economic behavior in the field : identifying, understanding and shaping social pressure
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Jensen, Robert T. - 2016
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