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preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …
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behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
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this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
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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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Charitable fundraisers frequently announce giving by others, and research shows that this can increase donations. However, this mechanism may not put information about peers to the most efficient use if it is costly to inform individuals who are indifferent to peer actions or causes some...
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This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support …
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In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we … of prosocial behavior. First, using standard social allocation decisions, we replicate the classic patterns of ingroup … predicts behavior in both situations. Moreover, exogenously varying interpersonal uncertainty shifts prosocial behavior in the …
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To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
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