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Gender Differences in Cooperation : Experimental Evidence on High School Students
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2013
Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...
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Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Gill, David; Rosokha, Yaroslav - 2022
We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find that heterogeneity in beliefs and changes in beliefs with experience are central to understanding...
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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment
Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013
abstract from confounding effects of reciprocal behavior, we design an experiment where a public official decides upon … early periods. Risk attitudes measured with a subsequent lottery-choice experiment do not correlate with the behavior … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …
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Framing Effects and Impatience : Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
van der Heijden, Eline - 2013
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in the frequency at which individuals decide about the invested amount. The low frequency treatment...
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods
Fischbacher, Urs - 2006
preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … predicted contributions, because they contribute in the first half of the experiment. We also show that the interaction of …
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
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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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Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations
Weizsacker, Georg - 2021
The paper presents a new meta data set covering 13 experiments on the social learning games by Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch (1992). The large amount of data makes it possible to estimate the empirically optimal action for a large variety of decision situations and ask about the economic...
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Salience theory of choice under risk
Bordalo, Pedro; Gennaioli, Nicola; Shleifer, Andrei - 2010
"We present a theory of choice among lotteries in which the decision maker's attention is drawn to (precisely defined) salient payoffs. This leads the decision maker to a context-dependent representation of lotteries in which true probabilities are replaced by decision weights distorted in favor...
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