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market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 …
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Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
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aversion, time preference, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and trust to uncover that contemporary …
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quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
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Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
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