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relax one of its assumptions as we allow for individual heterogeneity among individuals’ standards of behavior. Subjects …
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experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …
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We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
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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...
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position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …
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We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
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externalities. -- Social preference ; entrepreneurship ; experiment …
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/or roles of a game (Blanco et al. 2011). -- altruism ; dictator games ; moral preferences ; experimenter demand effect …
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We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others' choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, environmental economists, and environmental social scientists. We find that...
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We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
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