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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, social or self image …
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Selfish and prospective: theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
, which can be interpreted as weak evidence for parental altruism. The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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The Optimal Size for a Minority
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2001
We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...
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Giving in dictator games: regard for others or regard by others?
Koch, Alexander K.; Normann, Hans-Theo - 2005
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether fair behavior is inspired by regard for others or is explained by external forces. To test for the importance of external pressure we...
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The behavioural and policy implications are illustrated by showing the … effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …
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Incentives and prosocial behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
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