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Drouvelis, Michalis; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015

We study experimentally whether the endowment effect survives in a social and strategic context. Participants are asked for their Willingness-to-Accept (WTA) or Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) to play a series of 2x2 games. In the second part of the experiment, we study the endowment effect in...

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Strategies and evolution in the minority game : a multi-round strategy experiment

Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep; Tuinstra, Jan - 2013

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2016

A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not taken up. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points. We build a...

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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent

Erkut, Hande - 2018

Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...

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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015

In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …

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Selfless ignorance : too good to be true

Moradi, Homayoon - 2018

We use a range of dictator game experiments to investigate whether people avoid information altruistically. After …

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Teams promise but do not deliver

Nielsen, Kirby; Bhattacharya, Puja; Kagel, John H.; … - 2019

Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams make non-binding promises to cooperate at the same...

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