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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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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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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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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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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...
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Bracelets of pride and guilt? : an experimental test of self-signaling in charitable giving
Weele, Joël J. van der; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2014
experiment subjects divide 20 euros between themselves and a charity. Some randomly determined participants are induced to wear a … bracelet for the two weeks following their donation decision. This bracelet serves as a private reminder of the experiment … remember the experiment in the following two weeks. …
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Who cares when value (mis)reporting may be found out? : an acquiring-a-company experiment with value messages and information leaks
Di Cagno, Daniela; Güth, Werner; Lohse, Tim; Marazzi, … - 2023
We modify the Acquiring-a-Company game to study lying in ultimatum bargaining. Privately informed sellers send messages about the alleged value of their company to potential buyers. Via random information leaks, buyers can learn the true value before proposing a price which the seller finally...
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Mine, Ours or Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This Version: April 16, 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network games
Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - 2019
networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …
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Transparency is overrated : communicating in a coordination game with private information
Cabrales, Antonio; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gurguc, Zeynep; … - 2017
We consider an experiment with a version of the Battle of the Sexes game with two-sided private information, allowing a …
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