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The economic preferences of cooperative managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
employed in cooperatives.We gathered incentive-compatible measures of risk preferences, time preferences, reciprocity, altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005588
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The effect of religion on cooperation and altruistic punishment : experimental evidence from public goods experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523533
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Competitive work environments and social preferences : field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); Seki, Erika (contributor) - 2005
different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … a large extent. -- field experiment ; cooperation ; social disapproval ; social preference ; competition ; Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039639
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510510
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2017
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763834
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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024
The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences - or lack thereof - is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496241
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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023
Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419243
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Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the emergence of cooperative equilibria from passing and shooting
Askitas, Nikos - 2014
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235846
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It hurts to ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George F. - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382050
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Cooperation in diverse teams : the role of temporary group membership
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467802