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Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selectionbiases. The usefulness of … major advantages of our approach is that it allows for the integrationof experiments, which require interaction among the … wellwith behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilledworkers and people living in …
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behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
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punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to …
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altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …
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Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between …
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experiment, however, individuals have much more information available than outside the lab. We conduct a lab experiment to test … share of subjects behaves proscially and a concern for effciency plays an important role. In our experiment the information …
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In most laboratory experiments concerning prosocial behavior subjects are fully informed how their decision influences … knowledge. To asses the effect of information asymmetries on prosocial behavior, we conduct a laboratory experiment with a … a consequence and the main finding of our experiment, uninformed dictators behave more prosocially than informed …
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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What determines people's moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people's normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods...
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