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This paper presents theoretical and empirical analyses of experiments that test competing theories of altruism, including pure altruism (a preference for the well-being of others), warm glow (a good feeling from giving) and impure altruism (a combination of pure altruism and warm glow). These...
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PLDA performs better than FDA in terms of efficiency and fairness through theoretical and computational analyses. …
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This paper uses an OLG model to analyze the dilemma between efficiency and fairness, and then give a numerical … simulation for China’s reform practice in pension system with Chinese data.Results showed that :1)Compared to efficiency and fair … improving efficiency and fair distribution,more investment was needed to improve human capital,and the school education and …
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The current social dilemma literature lacks theoretical consensus regarding how individuals behave when facing multiple simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as individuals experience multiple social...
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We investigate voluntary contribution to public goods in culturally heterogeneous groups with a laboratory experiment conducted among 432 Hindu and Muslim subjects in India. With our specification of 'Leading by example' we test for an interaction effect between leadership and religious...
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Measures of preferences are primarily useful in that they are helpful in predicting behavior. We perform an experiment which demonstrates that the timing of the measurement of social preferences can affect such a measure. Researchers often measure social preferences by posing a series of...
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Economics often provides the wrong incentives to those who control the assets, such as people in developing countries where most forests are located and who could potentially benefit most from conservation . There is increasing unease about this situation, and an emerging view is that standard...
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Pay What You Want (PWYW) pricing has received considerable attention recently. Empirical studies show that when PWYW pricing is implemented buyers do not behave selfishly in a number of cases and that some sellers are able to use PWYW to increase turnover as well as profits. In this paper we...
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left to parties’ fairness. According to the previous literature we find that (1) the choice between the two contract … settings in equilibrium depends on fairness and enforcement costs, and (2) whenever a non-enforceable contract is chosen in … equilibrium it turns out welfare-improving. However, we are able to measure efficiency and make punctual predictions of how …
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be generous, what is the motive, i.e., either they fear rejection or do they have a preference for fairness, and (iii) Is …, would show a greater concern for fairness rather than fear of rejection. As is evident, the results of this study prove …
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