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

Fehr, Ernst - 2011

a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …

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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic Versus Antisocial Punishment : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

Goette, Lorenz - 2010

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...

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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 to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment

Beck, Adrian - 2010

broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …

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To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We examine whether shrouding or partitioning of a surcharge raises demand in online shopping. In a field experiment …

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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior a Randomized Educational Intervention

Sutter, Matthias; Weyland, Michael; Untertrifaller, Anna; … - 2023

We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to two different control treatments, we find that teaching financial literacy makes subjects behave...

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