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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 …

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Envy and Altruism in Children

Häger, Kirsten - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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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 …

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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...

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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

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Exploring the Effects of Unequal and Secretive Pay

Fischer, Sven; Steiger, Eva-Maria - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464021

Giving in dictator games: Experimenter demand effect or preference over the rules of the game?

Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012

Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...

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Social preferences under risk: Ex-post fairness vs. efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one's situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives equal...

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Charitable giving and intermediation

Chlaß, Nadine; Gangadharan, Lata; Jones, Kristy - 2015

Charitable donations are often made through intermediaries who can fund themselves from these same donations. Donors who purchase charitable output through an intermediary incur a principal-agent problem with unobservable prices. We compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without...

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Social preferences under uncertainty

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013

Willingness to take risk depends on whether the risk affects others as well as oneself and on how the risk affects one´s position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve one´s position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment that explores individual attitudes to...

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