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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607
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Resisting Moral Wiggle Room : How Robust is Reciprocity?
van der Weele, Joel J. - 2010
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this result extends to more natural social interactions involving reciprocal behavior. We provide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134984
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134817
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139713
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Altruism in Society : Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Commuters
Mujcic, Redzo - 2013
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093531
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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
Deckers, Thomas - 2017
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942093
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Cooperation in Diverse Teams : The Role of Temporary Group Membership
Grund, Christian - 2015
temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029636
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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 … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137793
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Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
Askitas, Nikos - 2014
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060136
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Social Protection and Migration in China : What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2021
Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in...
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