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Directed generosity and network formation: Network dimension matters

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2010

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Decomposing US Income Inequality à La Shapley: Race Matters, but Gender Too

Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020

This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We...

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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik - 2015

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...

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Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2018

Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study choices in the well-known (hypothetical) Trolley problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning...

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Knowing What Works The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

problem. It introduces several approaches, based on both experiments and on non-experimental data, that have been proposed in …

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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

when controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where traditional empirical …

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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2011

foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …

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