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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
majors and non-majors are less likely to contribute than comparable men. -- Altruism ; public goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925572
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Self selection does not increase other-regarding preferences among adult laboratory subjects, but student subjects may be more self-regarding than adults
Anderson, Jon; Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; … - 2010
We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...
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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences
Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...
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Women's liberation : what's in it for men?
Doepke, Matthias (contributor); Tertilt, Michele (contributor) - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
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What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know it?
Blinder, Alan S. (contributor); Krueger, Alan B. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002429333
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Commitment to self-rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824207
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Moody choice
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2010
If choices depend on the decision maker's mood, is the attempt to derive any consistency in choice doomed? In this paper we argue that, even with full unpredictability of mood, the way choices from a menu relate to choices from another menu exhibits some structure. We present two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976547
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Economic science and political influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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A million answers to twenty questions : choosing by checklist
Mandler, Michael (contributor); Manzini, Paola (contributor) - 2008
Many decision models in marketing science and psychology assume that a consumer chooses by proceeding sequentially through a checklist of desirable properties. These models are contrasted to the utility maximization model of rationality in economics. We show on the contrary that the two...
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
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