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

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …

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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

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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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Social preferences and social curiosity

Tasch, Weiwei; Houser, Daniel - 2018

Over the last two decades social preferences have been implicated in a wide variety of key economic behaviors. Here we investigate connections between social preferences and the demand for information about others' economic decisions and outcomes, which we denote "social curiosity." Our analysis...

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Individual and developmental differences in the relationship of preferences and theory of mind

Leipold, Kristina; Vetter, Nora C.; Dittrich, Marcus; … - 2012

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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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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The bonus-income donation norm

Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …

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