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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Fischbacher, Urs - 2006

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are types of players...

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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - 2023

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e.,behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids theidentification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subjectsimultaneously is a member...

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Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Kosfeld, Michael; Fischbacher, Urs - 2021

This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other- regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in …

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023

with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combiningrepresentative survey data with representative … behavioral data from a social dilemmaexperiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust correlate … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …

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