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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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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment

Quader, Manzur - 2014

firm's investment is comparatively more sensitive to cash flow, but this sensitivity is negatively and significantly … related with corporate efficiency. These results point to the fact that high investment sensitivity to cash flow may not be … solely driven by measurement error in investment opportunity, but may still be interpreted as a consequence of imperfect …

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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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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Francesconi, Marco - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We … impurity is very low as long as one party's investment is more important than the other party's. If the parties' investments …

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Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior : Some Experimental Evidence

Cabrales, Antonio - 2020

Formal or informal institutions have long been adopted by societies to protect against opportunistic behavior. However, we know very little about how these institutions are chosen and their impact on behavior. We experimentally investigate the demand for different levels of institutions that...

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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Engl, Florian - 2017

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...

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Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior

Abel, Martin - 2020

The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people overestimate their own risk and that of young people, while...

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital : Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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Love Thy Neighbor : Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Heineck, Guido - 2014

There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is barely any evidence for Germany. This study adds to...

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat; Meier, Stephan - 2021

This paper experimentally examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others - as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...

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