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Welfare-based altruism
Breitmoser, Yves; Vorjohann, Pauline - 2018
Why do people give when asked, but prefer not to be asked, and even take when possible? We show that standard behavioral axioms including separability, narrow bracketing, and scaling invariance predict these seemingly inconsistent observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that...
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Show what you risk - norms for risk taking
Grimm, Stefan - 2018
Most economic decisions are embedded in a specific social context. In many such contexts, individual choices are influenced by their observability due to underlying social norms and social image concerns. This study investigates the impact of choices being observed, compared to anonymity of...
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Risk, time pressure, and selection effects
Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2018
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
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Ignorance, intention and stochastic outcomes
Friedrichsen, Jana; Momsen, Katharina; Piasenti, Stefano - 2022
In sequential interactions, both the agent’s intention and the outcome of his choice may influence the principal’s action. While outcomes are typically observable, intentions are more likely to be hidden, leaving potential wiggle room for the principal when deciding on a reciprocating...
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Motivated motive selection in the lying-dictator game
Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2019
A large body of evidence suggests that people are willing to sacrifice personal material gain in order to adhere to a moral motive such as fairness or truth-telling. Yet less is known about what happens when moral motives are in conflict. We hypothesize that in such situations, individuals...
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Online fundraising, self-deception, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2016
first change doubled the donation grid. A second change altered the navigation of the website rendering the act of declining … how donation grids can have dramatic im-pacts on giving. Second, we demonstrate that small, apparently superficial chang …
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Online fundraising, self-deception, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018 - Revised March 2018
We provide the first field evidence for the role of pure self-image, independent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individ-uals engage in self-deception to preserve their...
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Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018 - 2n revision October 2018
We provide the first field evidence pointing at the role of pure self-image, inde-pendent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals appear to engage in self-deception to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912100
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Online fundraising, self-image, and the long-term impact of ask avoidance
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2018 - This version: 22 February 2018
We provide the first field evidence for the role of pure self-image, independent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals engage in self-deception to preserve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900056
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Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers : a two-period experiment on charitable giving
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo - 2021 - This version: January, 2021
subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … spillover effect, which identifies the impact of previous pro-social behavior on subsequent donation decisions and a crowding … to the donation decision. Most importantly, we find that the spillover effects depend on how the initial pro …
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