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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011
dictator's donation crowds out one-for-one a donation by the experimenters, which aims at measuring warm glow giving, (iii) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274632
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513185
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Gender Differences in the Development of Other-Regarding Preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744756
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Experimental evidence of self-image concerns as motivation for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between themselves and a passive recipient that is either a charity or the experimenter. When making these decisions subjects are informed that one of them will be chosen randomly at the end...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286899
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Experimental Evidence of Self-Image Concerns as Motivation for Giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between themselves and a passive recipient that is either a charity or the experimenter. When making these decisions subjects are informed that one of them will be chosen randomly at the end...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652534
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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
dictator’s donation crowds out one-for-one a donation by the experimenters, which aims at measuring warm glow giving, (iii) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836669
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195830
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How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and willingness to compete in the field, it can be … men winning the tournament significantly more often than women under uncertainty and ambiguity. These findings suggest … disparities from increasing under uncertainty and ambiguity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059078
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333299
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True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L.; Johnstone, Lachlan - 2017
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported beliefs. Subjects choose how to invest earnings from a skill task when the returns depend solely upon risk, or both risk and relative placement, enabling joint estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653273