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Gender Effects in Dictator Game Giving : Women Favour Female Recipients
Baltrusch, Maximilian - 2018
Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a … substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary … recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning on transfers to fellow students the gender bias of women remains …
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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas - 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...
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Welfare Stigma in the Lab : Evidence of Social Signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces … can exclude other explanations for the observed stigma effect. In the experiment, social stigmatization implies a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952402
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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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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...
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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2008
the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment to provide behavioural evidence that is rare in such a …
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Smoking and Social Interaction
Poutvaara, Panu; Siemers, Lars H.R - 2021
We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317156
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Generous Sustainability
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2014
I define “generous sustainability” as a combination of two conditions: neither instantaneous maximin income nor attainable maximin income should decrease over time. I provide a formal definition and study applications to an AK economy, a Ramsey economy, and a Climate Economy. Generosity is...
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The Dynamics of Dictator Behavior
Sass, Markus; Timme, Florian; Weimann, Joachim - 2021
Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between repetitions. To learn more about the dynamics of altruistic behavior, we use repeated standard dictator experiments. The dynamics of prosocial behavior in these experiments...
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