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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697050

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496966

Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly. We find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803507

Pricing group membership

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Cabrales, Antonio - 2020

We consider a model where agents differ in their ‘types’ which determines their voluntary contribution towards a public good. We analyze what the equilibrium composition of groups are under centralized and centralized choice. We show that there exists a top-down sorting equilibrium i.e. an...

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Optimal timing in rotten kid families

Faria, João Ricardo; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2017

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that the optimal timing for the sequential-action game played by rotten kids and a parent depends crucially on whether the kids are homogeneous or heterogeneous. For homogeneous kids,...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410448

Provision of a public good with altruistic overlapping generations and many tribes

Karp, Larry S. - 2012

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public … problem with a constant discount rate and an endogenous annuity. -- overlapping generations ; altruism ; time consistency …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571754

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

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001

, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398913

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368

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