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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Bénabou, Roland - 2009
" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137793
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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-Social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola - 2009
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a "standard" way; offering donors economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153518
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910745
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Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021
Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with "medals" when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324899
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2016
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987970
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128229
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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124075
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences : Global Evidence
Falk, Armin - 2015
, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference data as well as a rich set of covariates … for 80,000 individuals, drawn as representative samples from 76 countries around the world, representing 90 percent of … both the world's population and global income. The global distribution of preferences exhibits substantial variation across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011171
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Neo-Humanism and COVID-19 : Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey - 2022
. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well- being of markets, in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083936