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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 3, pp. 330-341
cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in … lower levels of contribution. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of …
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Sharing information
Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 689-698
Customers write book reviews for Amazon.com and rate stores at BizRate.com. Car drivers call up radio stations to report traffic jams or radar traps. In many cases individuals share their information to the benefit of an unknown group of recipients, even though doing so is costly for the...
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“Feel the Warmth” glow: A field experiment on manipulating the act of giving
Chuan, Amanda; Samek, Anya Savikhin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 198-211
We conducted a field experiment with a charitable group to investigate whether giving the donor an option to write a personalized holiday card to the recipient influences giving behavior. Over 1500 households were approached in a door-to-door campaign and randomized to either a treatment group,...
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Doing wrong to do right? Social preferences and dishonest behavior
Okeke, Edward N.; Godlonton, Susan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 124-139
Can pro-social preferences lead to dishonest or unethical behavior? Lab evidence suggests that it can. In this paper, we document some of the first field evidence of this phenomenon. In this study, individuals were hired as field staff and tasked with distributing subsidized price vouchers...
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Learning and evolution of altruistic preferences in the Centipede Game
Gamba, Astrid - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 85 (2013) C, pp. 112-117
behavior. We show that altruism may be evolutionarily successful even if preferences are unobservable. …
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Scale manipulation in dictator games
Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 138-142
We let subjects estimate behavior and expectations of others before they play dictator games, and only vary the quantitative scales for their estimates. Our data show that this manipulation may significantly affect economic decisions: dictators who are presented a scale with a higher midpoint...
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Fiscal policy, composition of intergenerational transfers, and income distribution
Alonso-Carrera, Jaime; Caballé, Jordi; Raurich, Xavier - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 62-84
In this paper, we characterize the relationship between the initial distribution of human capital and physical inheritances among individuals and the long-run distribution of these two variables. In a model with indivisible investment in education, we analyze how the initial distribution of...
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Constructing gender differences in the economics lab
Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 3, pp. 741-752
We study the effects of experimental design on male and female behavior in a dictator game. Following social identity theory we investigate how experimental procedure may affect outcome through gender priming, i.e. the activation of gender stereotypes specifying that women behave altruistically...
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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of cognitive ability, social preferences, and consistency
Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) C, pp. 112-122
Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between consequential measures of cognitive ability and...
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Social norms of sharing in high school: Teen giving in the dictator game
Eckel, Catherine; Grossman, Philip J.; Johnson, Cathleen A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 80 (2011) 3, pp. 603-612
We conduct a study of altruistic behavior among high school students using the dictator game. We find a much stronger norm of equal splitting than previously observed in the typical university student population, with almost 45% of high school subjects choosing an equal split of the endowment....
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