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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Miller, John H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non-laboratory contexts often involves the allocation of consumption goods or non-monetary harm. Psychological evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity...
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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282461
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The influences of social context on the measurement of distributional preferences
Greiff, Matthias; Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - 2016
Different social contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a within-subjects design and measure distributional preferences in resource allocation tasks with role...
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Reputation transmission without benefit to the reporter: A behavioral underpinning of markets in experimental focus
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis - 2015
laboratory experiment in which subjects lack any private material incentive to report partners' actions, we find that most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526719
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Large effects of small cues: Priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024
Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
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Some Causes are More Equal than Others? Behavioral Spillovers in Charitable Giving
Ek, Claes - 2015
People can often contribute to prosocial causes by several means; for instance, environmentally friendly activities include sorting household waste, buying organic products, and donating to NGOs. Policy to encourage prosocial behavior is sometimes directed only towards a particular activity,...
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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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State or nature? Formal vs. informal sanctioning in the voluntary provision of public goods
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2011
The sanctioning of norm-violating behavior by an effective formal authority is an efficient solution for social dilemmas. It is in the self-interest of voters and is often favorably contrasted with letting citizens take punishment into their own hands. Allowing informal sanctions, by contrast,...
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008
embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …
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