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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support …
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experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally …
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We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …
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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...
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experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many settings. We combine standard altruism and warm … altruism and provide an alternative method for collecting warm glow preferences. …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352276