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Social Preferences in Private Decisions
Linde, Jona - 2012
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112999
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Social Preferences in Private Decisions
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2012
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326434
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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2010
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on multiple price lists developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220473
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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2013
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039321
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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2011
by eroding motivation. The present paper shows thatintention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding …-out if individuals differin their propensity for reciprocity and preferences are private information. Not beingcontrolled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326255
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Counting what counts: Moral considerations and market surplus
Koster, Paul - 2023
Public benefit-cost analysis of market policies often relies on a particular definition of market surplus that adds up consumer and producer surplus and external costs. This paper provides an overview of conceptual strategies to deal with moral considerations and then develops an adjusted market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321781
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Urban income inequality and social welfare
Koster, Paul - 2023
When income inequality increases when average income levels increase, rises in average income levels might result in inequality costs. This paper develops marginal social welfare measures that account for the possibility that income inequality changes when average income levels change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321782
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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2011
by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding …-out if individuals differ in their propensity for reciprocity and preferences are private information. Not being controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042888
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Rich meets Poor - An International Fairness Experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326015
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Social Comparison and Risky Choices
Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2009
decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325900