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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment

Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...

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Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods : an experimental study

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2013

We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for experience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...

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Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods : an experimental study

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2015 - September 2013, revised March 2015

We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for expe-rience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498486

Confidence and college applications : evidence from a randomized intervention

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Schmacker, Renke; Terrier, Camille - 2023

This paper investigates the role self-confidence plays in college applications. Using incentivized experiments, we … measure the self-confidence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. This data reveals that the best female … miscalibrated confidence affects college choice on top of grades. We then estimate the impact of a randomized intervention that …

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Decomposing trust

Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

Trust is an important condition for economic growth and other economic outcomes. Previous studies suggest that the decision to trust is driven by a combination of risk attitudes, distributional preferences, betrayal aversion, and beliefs about the probability of being reciprocated. We compare...

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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, an d donor's trust: experimental evidence

Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2018

In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group, participants presented with a quality certificate chose higher donations by around 10% and reported higher trust towards the same charity . The choice of donation values over...

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Quality certifications for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust : experimental evidence

Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - 2017

In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality certificate, participants chose higher donations by approximately 10%. This effect is significant for donations out of prize money and actual own money donations, and not...

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Beliefs and actions in the trust game : creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect

Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2012

In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's belief about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments ask participants to state beliefs explicitly but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and...

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Cooperation, competition, and welfare in a matching market

Bester, Helmut; Sákovics, József - 2022

We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out,...

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Cooperation, competition, and welfare in a matching market

Bester, Helmut; Sákovics, József - 2022

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