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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738885
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596233
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn (contributor); Riedl, Arnold (contributor) - 2005
punishment ; collective action ; public goods ; internet experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003086450
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Exploitation, altruism, and social welfare : an economic exploration
Doepke, Matthias - 2013
minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756103
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Playing "hard to get" : an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior
Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014
it becomes scarce. In the second, restraint serves to conceal the actor's intrinsic motivation. In both cases, not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345273
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High-powered performance pay and crowding out of non-monetary motives
Huffman, David; Bognanno, Michael Leonard - 2018
, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946785
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Preferences for redistribution and pensions : what can we learn from experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010
this depend on the type of redistribution involved? -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780004
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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844819
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
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On the hidden costs of incentive schemes
Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784246