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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?
Dur, Robert - 2021
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
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Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - 2013
This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we … develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other … that altruism undermines the credibility of a threat of dismissal but strengthens the credibility of a bonus. Among others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082165
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Decision-Making by Children
Lundberg, Shelly J.; Romich, Jennifer L.; Tsang, Kwok Ping - 2021
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child...
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more …
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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 altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117607
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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...
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