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Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...

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Fear, trust and demand for regulation : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Russia

Borisova, Ekaterina; Frye, Timothy; Schoors, Koen; … - 2022

, existing theories rooted in market failure and government failure have focused on various forms of trust, but have paid little … attention to fear. We test how fear and trust shape demand for government regulation by drawing on especially precise measures … fear of contracting the virus is directly related to greater demand for regulation. In addition, the impact of trust is …

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Altruistic observational learning

March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2016

We report two information cascade game experiments that directly test the impact of altruism on observational learning. Participants interact in two parallel sequences, the observed and the unobserved sequence. Only the actions of the observed entail informational benefits to subsequent...

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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Culture and cooperation

Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010

Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...

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Directed generosity and network formation : network dimension matters

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2010

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...

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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karinq; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011

In recent decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition of the population in many countries has consequently become much more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic background. If people exhibit in-group bias in the sense of being more...

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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001

Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or...

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Pro-social behavior, reciprocity or both?

Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2002

Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...

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