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Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences Among Adult Laboratory Subjects, But Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults
Anderson, Jon C. - 2010
We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2018
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...
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Economic Science and Political Influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2013
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Dur, Robert - 2009
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...
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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
Cremer, Helmuth - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal …
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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 … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …
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Waiting to Give
Craig, Ashley - 2014
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...
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Intertemporal Altruism
Chopra, Felix; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Falk, Armin; … - 2021
Standard consumption utility is linked in time to a consumption event, whereas the timing of prosocial utility flows is ambiguous. Prosocial utility may depend on the actual utility consequences for others – it is consequence-dated – or it may be related to the act of giving and is thus...
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