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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2023

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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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2018

behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …

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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2015

This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two …

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Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences

John, Katrin - 2017

We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...

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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2011

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …

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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children

Bauer, Michal - 2011

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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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Fehr, Ernst - 2011

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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Experimental Evidence of Self-Image Concerns as Motivation for Giving

Tonin, Mirco - 2012

We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between …

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Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games

Drouvelis, Michalis - 2013

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

Angerer, Silvia - 2014

experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …

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