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Why and how identity should influence utility

Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007 - This Version: January 11, 2007

This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. Within a stylised model of social interaction, we show that the development of cooperative social norms is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society...

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Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? : an experiment

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2008

We implement the Rawlsian veil of ignorance in the laboratory. Our experimental design allows separating the effects of risk and social preferences behind the veil of ignorance. Subjects prefer more equal distributions behind than in front of the veil of ignorance, but only a minority acts...

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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 …

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You owe me

Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or in-formational effects, small gifts strongly...

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Screening, competition, and job design : economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...

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Fairness : a critique to the utilitarian approach

Kircher, Philipp; Sandroni, Alvaro; Ludwig, Sandra - 2009

We address a basic diffculty with incorporating fairness into standard utilitarian choice theories. Standard utilitarian theories evaluate lotteries according to the (weighted) utility over ?nal outcomes and assume in particular that a lottery is never preferred over getting the most preferred...

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Fairness and cheating

Houser, Daniel; Vetter, Stefan; Winter, Joachim - 2010

We present evidence from a laboratory experiment showing that individuals who believe they were treated unfairly in an …

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Free riding in the lab and in the field

Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010

We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …

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Informative voting and the Samuelson rule

Bierbrauer, Felix; Sahm, Marco - 2006

We study the classical free-rider problem in public goods provision in a large economy with uncertainty about the average valuation of the public good. Individual preferences over public goods are shaped by a skill and a taste parameter. We use a mechanism design approach to solve for the...

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The role of equality and efficiency in social preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2004

Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) claim that a combination of efficiency seeking and minmax preferences dominates inequity aversion in simple dictator games. This result relies on a strong subject pool effect. The participants of their experiments were undergraduate students of economics and...

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