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Testing the single-peakedness of other-regarding preferences
Levati, M. Vittoria; Nicholas, Aaron; Rai, Birendra - In: European economic review : EER 67 (2014), pp. 197-209
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423020
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910745
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Ambiguity and excuse-driven behavior in charitable giving
Garcia, Thomas; Massoni, Sébastien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - In: European economic review : EER 124 (2020), pp. 1-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264794
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Norm enforcement in the city : a natural field experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 8, pp. 1773-1785
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009706411
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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Why Volunteer? Evidence on the Role of Altruism, Reputation, and Incentives
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2013
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753831
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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare : An Economic Exploration
Doepke, Matthias - 2013
minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080132
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska - 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/10013139713
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Social norms and gift behavior : theory and evidence from Romania
Mitrut, Andreea; Nordblom, Katarina - In: European economic review : EER 54 (2010) 8, pp. 998-1015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936657