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-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
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Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
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sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled … cultural background matter. -- Decision under pressure ; altruism ; social norms ; interdependent preferences ; excess of …
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; tragic events and disasters ; survival ; quasi-natural experiment ; altruism …
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This paper develops an expanded framework for social planning in which the existence of coercion is explicitly acknowledged. Key issues concern the precise definition of coercion for individuals and in the aggregate, its difference from redistribution, and its incorporation into normative...
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Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the...
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making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …
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altruism, trust, trustworthiness, and cooperation. For non-social experiences, we find no effect on subsequent behavior in any …
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gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical … two weeks later, and extend to incentivized outcomes. In a second experiment conducted in the follow-up survey, we …
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three channels through which democracy can produce such a dividend: selection, signaling, and motivation. The evidence …
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