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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314280
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912822
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Altruism or money? : reducing teacher sorting using behavioral strategies in Peru
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; … - 2021
salient, and an "Extrinsic Incentives" arm, which simplified the information and increased the salience of an existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431713
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Incentives and the design of charitable fundraisers : lessons from a field experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2015
schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502690
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The sequencing of gift exchange : a field trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647476
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Motivating altruism : a field study
Lacetera, Nicola (contributor); Macis, Mario (contributor) - 2008
incentivizing pro-social behavior. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764394
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Social image concerns and pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola (contributor); Macis, Mario (contributor) - 2008
frequency of donations. -- Incentives ; awards ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health ; social prestige …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769569
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Do all material incentives for prosocial activities backfire? : the response to cash and non-cash incentives for blood donations
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2009
. Implications for research and public policy are discussed. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901762
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Will there be blood? : incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009
overestimated. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health …We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information … incentives in a "standard" way; offering donors economic incentives significantly increases turnout and blood units collected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919831