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Egalitarian Envy: Cross-cultural Variation in the Development of Envy in Children
Häger, Kirsten; Oud, Bastiaan; Schunk, Daniel - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
While envy has been studied extensively in adults, the question how envy develops during childhood has not received … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … appear to mitigate this prevalence. Furthermore, we found strong evidence of cultural variability in the development of envy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884464
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Exploring the effects of unequal and secretive pay
Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - 2009
We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatory pay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes low paid agents to reduce effiort. We control for intentionality of wages by either allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing a random process. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267082
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Egalitarian envy: Cross-cultural variation in the development of envy in children
Häger, Kirsten; Oud, Bastian; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
While envy has been studied extensively in adults, the question how envy develops during childhood has not received … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … appear to mitigate this prevalence. Furthermore, we found strong evidence of cultural variability in the development of envy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331081
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Envy and Altruism in Children
Häger, Kirsten - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641432
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Envy and Altruism in Children
Häger, Kirsten - 2010
Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281627
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Exploring the Effects of Unequal and Secretive Pay
Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatory pay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes low paid agents to reduce effiort. We control for intentionality of wages by either allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing a random process. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464021
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Social comparison and risk taking behavior
Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of social comparison on risk taking behavior. We assume that decision makers evaluate consequences of their choices not only as variations with respect to their economic status but also as variations with respect to the status of their peers. We test experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928571
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Social Comparison and Risk Taking Behavior
Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena; Stanca, Luca - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effects of social comparison on risk taking be- havior. In our framework, decision makers evaluate the consequences of their choices as changes with respect to both their own and their peers' conditions. We test experimentally whether different positions in the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082352
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Social comparison and risk taking behavior
Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena - 2014
risk attitudes and that they both generate more risk loving behavior. Moreover, we find that a propension to envy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369302
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Social comparison and risk taking behavior
Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena; Stanca, Luca - 2014
This paper studies the effects of social comparison on risk taking be- havior. In our framework, decision makers evaluate the consequences of their choices as changes with respect to both their own and their peers' conditions. We test experimentally whether different positions in the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500158