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Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
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to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …
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Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
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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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Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two … experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test … a commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less …
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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce … to no enforcement. We also find that social heterogeneity lowers average trust and induces ingroup favouritism in trust … positively into norms and trust. Our study contributes to the literature on behavioural responses to institutional design and …
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We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise … to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert …
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