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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre - 2016
, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985409
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The Dynamics of Dictator Behavior
Sass, Markus; Timme, Florian; Weimann, Joachim - 2021
and what kinds of behavioral dynamics are covered by a social norm. Furthermore, we vary the number of repetitions of the … is covered by a social norm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315543
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058487
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Determinants of Trust : the Role of Personal Experiences
Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2021
Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals’ inclination to trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315368
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An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods
Ibuka, Yoko - 2018
Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920121
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Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution
Roth, Christopher - 2017
We examine whether individuals' experienced levels of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We use several large nationally representative datasets to show that people who have experienced higher inequality during their lives are less in favor of redistribution, after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964374
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Do Natives' Beliefs About Refugees' Education Level Affect Attitudes Toward Refugees? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018
exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926562
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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2009
crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156875
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Risk Aversion as a Perceptual Bias
Khaw, Mel - 2017
The theory of expected utility maximization (EUM) proposed by Bernoulli explains risk aversion as a consequence of diminishing marginal utility of wealth. However, observed choices between risky lotteries are difficult to reconcile with EUM: for example, in the laboratory, subjects' responses on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956867
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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009880