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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods
Fischbacher, Urs - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are types of players...
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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2021
In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316924
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Anger Management : Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
Gee, Laura - 2017
The ability to punish free-riders can increase the provision of public goods. However, sometimes the benefit of increased public good provision is outweighed by the costs of punishments. One reason a group may punish to the point that net welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger...
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080136
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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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Optimal Incentives to Give
Castillo, Marco - 2020
predicted by theory and our simulations. Our findings highlight the pitfalls of relying on a particular parameterization of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831983
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153511
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …
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Waiting to Give
Craig, Ashley - 2014
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...
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