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Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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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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Measuring belief-dependent preferences without information about beliefs

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2019

We derive bounds on the causal effect of belief-dependent preferences (reciprocity and guilt aversion) on choices in sequential two-player games without exploiting information or data on the (higher-order) beliefs of players. We show how informative bounds can be derived by exploiting a specific...

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Learning about a class of belief-dependent preferences without information on beliefs

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2011

We show how to bound the effect of belief-dependent preferences on choices in sequential two-player games without information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and...

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Just cheap talk? : investigating fairness preferences in hypothetical scenarios

Hufe, Paul; Weishaar, Daniel - 2025

The measurement of preferences often relies on surveys in which individuals evaluate hypothetical scenarios. This paper proposes and validates a novel factorial survey tool to measure fairness preferences. We examine whether a non-incentivized survey captures the same distributional preferences...

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An experimental study of voting with costly delay

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...

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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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Rules, preferences and evolution from the family angle

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or...

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Household consumption when the marriage is stable

Cherchye, Laurens; Demuynck, Thomas; Rock, Bram de; … - 2014

stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We show …

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Telling the truth may not pay off : an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany

Braun, Sebastian (contributor); Dwenger, Nadja (contributor) - 2007

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …

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