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desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive and retributive preferences? We test whether punishers derive … transgressor’s suffering), and cognitive states (the transgressor's beliefs about the cause of that suffering). In a novel …, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …
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economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free …-world dimension of free riding. In a cash-in-advance economy, free riding becomes a two-stage problem, while existing experiments only … the public good and leisure is valuable. Existing experiments start with a given number of "tokens" for each decision …
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; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …
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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can …
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find that individuals' risk preferences are predictive for giving in both experiments. Increased risk exposure of …
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Discrimination is an ubiquitous phenomenon in many societies, but little is known about its origins in childhood. In a framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and...
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A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most …
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We analyze equilibria of two-player contests where players have intention-based preferences. We find that players invest more effort compared to the case with selfish preferences and are even willing to exert effort when the monetary value of the prize converges to zero. As a consequence,...
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