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Altruism and envy in contests : an evolutionarily stable symbiosis
Konrad, Kai A. - 2002
Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.
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Is strong reciprocity a maladaptation? : on the evolutionary foundations of human altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003
that ultimate theories of kin selection, reciprocal altruism, costly signaling and indirect reciprocity do not provide …
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On the sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points
Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014
threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that behavior should differ dramatically either side of a dividing line for threshold …
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Growing groups, cooperation, and the rate of entry
Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory public-good game with voluntary contributions and economies of scale, we construct a situation in which expanding a group's size yields potential efficiency gains, but only if...
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I care what you think : social image concerns and the strategic revelation of past pro-social behavior
Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2019
This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...
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From one to many central plans : drug advertising inspections and intra-national protectionism in China
Eberhardt, Markus; Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong - 2014
This paper provides the first micro-level evidence for the existence and patterns of intra-national protectionism in China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms from outside the province and document how the degree of...
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …
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Gender effects in dictator game giving : women favour female recipients
Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: April 22, 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...
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