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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003
. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262063
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Do women prefer a co-operative work environment?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280692
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The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior
Banerjee, Ritwik; Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Villeval, … - 2016
increase substantially the confidence of the lower caste members and motivate them to choose significantly more frequently a … tournament payment scheme. However, we find no spillover effect on confidence and competitiveness once Affirmative Action is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653122
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Male and female competitive behavior: experimental evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - 2005
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267595
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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761704
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703512
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The effect of religion on cooperation and altruistic punishment: Experimental evidence from public goods experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282506
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278567
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Effects of parental background on other-regarding preferences in children
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282557