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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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The strategy method risks conflating confusion with a social preference for conditional cooperation in public goods games

Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N.; D'Amico, Victoire; Guérin, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-10

The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...

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Explaining cooperative behavior in public goods games : how preferences and beliefs affect contribution levels

Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/15, pp. 1-34

individual level using multiple methods, and at multiple times during the experiment. With this rich set of predictor variables …

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Introduction to the special issue "pro-sociality and cooperation"

Ghidoni, Riccardo - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-2

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Tax morale and the role of social norms and reciprocity : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms …

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …

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A choice prediction competition for a social preferences in simple extensive form games : an introduction

Ert, Eyal; Erev, Ido; Roth, Alvin E. - In: Games 2 (2011) 3, pp. 257-276

and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation experiment and a … competition experiment. The two experiments use the same methods and subject pool, and examine games randomly selected from the … same distribution. The current introductory paper presents the results of the estimation experiment, and clarifies the …

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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...

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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?

Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024

The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences - or lack thereof - is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...

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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

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