There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity … raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social … preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro …-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we …-oriented altruism. We then compare the latter to effort exerted in an environment where both types of altruistic preferences are …

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 …

too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …