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Cooperation, motivation and social balance
Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082
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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531908
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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
, time preferences are elicited using incentivized choice experiments. The aggregate distributions of discount factors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940301
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Preferences for redistribution and pensions : what can we learn from experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780004
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Interpreting time horizon effects in inter-temporal choice
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
-temporal choice. -- time preference ; hyperbolic discounting ; self-control ; dynamic inconsistency ; intransitivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533429
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John H.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307506
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Manipulation of choice behavior
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; Tyson, Christopher J. - 2011
We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision … framework, which overlaps with two existing models of choice under cognitive constraints, we provide a complete answer to this … question. -- attention ; choice function ; revealed preference ; satisficing ; threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312203
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755329
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Directed giving : evidence from an inter-household transfer experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194757
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Do men matter to female competition even when they don't?
Birk, Erica G.; Lee, Logan M.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2016
A large literature attempts to identify factors that contribute to gender differences in performance and in the decision to compete. We exploit a highly competitive environment in which elite-female athletes are exposed to the presence of men without the element of direct competition, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531865