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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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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016
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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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust
Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023
and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319160
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Social reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002456037
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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
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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Why volunteer? : Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
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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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 …
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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training
Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019
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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Be a good samaritan to a good samaritan : field evidence of interdependent other-regarding preferences in China
Chang, Simon; Dee, Thomas S.; Tse, Chun Wing; Yu, Li - 2015
nearly twice as high as that of the control letters (9%). The finding adds large-scale field experiment evidence in support …
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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