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The investment game with asymmetric information
Coricelli, G.; Morales, L.G.; Mahlstedt, A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information and expectations in the investment game (Berg et al., 1995). In our experiment, only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects’ expectations about each other’s behavior are also elicited. Our results show that average...
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a largescale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, oneshot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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Experimenter Demand Effects and Altruism towards the Experimenter
Fleming, Piers; Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013
As a stress test of experimenter demand effects, we run an experiment where subjects can physically destroy coupons awarded to them. About one subject out of three does. Giving money back to the experimenter is possible in a separate task but is more consistent with an experimenter demand effect...
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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different … age groups, ranging from 8 year old primary school children to retired persons in their late sixties. Although both trust … research has devoted surprisingly little attention to their development with age. Our results provide clear evidence that trust …
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Trust in cooperation or ability? – An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party’s cooperation and trust in ability. In …
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Vendettas
Bolle, Friedel; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Vendettas occur in many real world settings where rivals compete for a prize, e.g., winning an election or a competitive promotion, by engaging in retaliatory aggressive behavior. We present a benchmark experiment where two players have an initial probability of winning a prize. Retaliatory...
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Giving, taking, and gender in dictator games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young; Saha, Bibhas - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014
We investigate whether a pure framing has any effect on the decisions made in a dictator game. We run a between subject dictator game with a giving and a taking frame whilst keeping the strategy space the same. Complying with the literature we find no overall difference in the amount allocated...
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Income effect and altruism
Chowdhury, Subhashish Modak; Jeon, Joo Young - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2012
We investigate the consequences of a pure income effect on the altruistic behavior of donors. Inequity aversion theories predict either no effect or a decrease in giving, whereas warm-glow theory predicts an increase in giving with an increase in the common income of donor and receiver....
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Altruism, Anticipation, and Gender
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013
Existing studies connect overall wellbeing with both payoffs and related anticipation, but it is not explored whether altruistic behavior as well as anticipation about the same may differ across gender and across income levels. We study altruistic behavior and the corresponding anticipation...
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Reminders, payment method and charitable giving: evidence from an online experiment
Sonntag, Axel; Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014
We present the results of an experiment testing whether different methods of payment in combination with different reminder intervals affect the amounts of charitable donations. Following a lab session, participants could make online donations to charity for a total duration of three months....
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