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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083850
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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior, provided these activities work as signals of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136037
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Communication and Trust in Principal-Team Relationships : Experimental Evidence
Kleine, Marco - 2015
We study how upward communication – from workers to managers – about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029635
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Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias
Burks, Stephen V. - 2010
relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple … on 1,016 individuals' relative ability judgments about two cognitive tests rejects the Bayesian model. The second theory … might make this belief worse. Our data also reject this prediction. The third theory is that overconfidence is induced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146457
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2016
from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement. We discuss, synthesize and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987970
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Does War Foster Cooperation or Parochialism? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Among Turkish Conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - 2023
Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260612
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129110
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119293
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
Kocher, Martin G. - 2009
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764226
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530