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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Fehr, Ernst - 2011

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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Big Experimenter is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory

Barmettler, Franziska - 2011

Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many economic domains. However, it is important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this...

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 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...

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Screening, Competition, and Job Design : Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Bartling, Björn - 2010

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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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market : The Role of Fairness Concerns

Fehr, Ernst - 2008

incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns … among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …

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Use and Abuse of Authority : A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

Bartling, Björn - 2012

, inducing them to resist entering into employment contracts. This resistance to employment contracts vanishes if fairness …

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How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

Fehr, Ernst - 2011

Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and ex post...

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Reputation and Credit Market Formation : How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact

Fehr, Ernst - 2009

The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...

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The Causal Effect of Trust

Bartling, Björn - 2018

Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...

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The Ambiguity Triangle : Uncovering Fundamental Patterns of Behavior Under Uncertainty

Burghart, Daniel - 2015

-parametric test for constant ambiguity attitudes. We find that more than 95% of subjects adhere to GARP and that about 60% satisfy our … test for a constant ambiguity attitude. Yet, among these 60% of subjects there is substantial preference heterogeneity. We …

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