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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis

Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011

vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …

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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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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children

Maggian, Valeria - 2014

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...

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Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation

Isler, Ozan; Gaechter, Simon - 2022

tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects …

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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation, and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

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Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games : Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?

Krupka, Erin L.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021

We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the appropriateness of different possible behaviors. We demonstrate that the norms we elicit, along with a...

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Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks : how much is a friend worth?

Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007

an anonymous treatment where neither player is told at the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment … future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared …