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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children

Angerer, Silvia - 2014

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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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate - 2017

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...

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Risky Choices and Solidarity : Why Experimental Design Matters

Wunsch, Conny - 2018

Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...

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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2016

return higher shares as second-movers in a trust game. Furthermore, they invest more in rewards and punishment when they can …

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Trust and Trustworthiness Under the Prospect Theory : A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Nguyen, Quang - 2012

We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in …. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk aversion do not affect trust, loss aversion influences trust … reduce trust and trustworthiness …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … buyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base our analysis on the German Socio …-Economic Panel and recently introduced questions about trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity to examine the extent …

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane - 2014

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

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Global evidence on economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; … - 2017

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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

Deckers, Thomas - 2017

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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