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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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We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...
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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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vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …
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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
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it becomes scarce. In the second, restraint serves to conceal the actor's intrinsic motivation. In both cases, not …
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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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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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