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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010 - This version: 15 June 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...

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Revealed distributional preferences : individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013 - This version: 24 June 2013

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age : an experiment in Austria and Sweden

Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; … - 2010

We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age. -- social preferences ; children ; adolescents ;...

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Equality, equity and incentives : an experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2010 - This version: 09/16/2010

schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … and equity concerns, which sometimes cut in opposite directions. Contributions, which seem mainly determined by boundedly … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. -- equality ; efficiency …

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010

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The impact of naive advice and observational learning in beauty-contest games

Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2007 - This version: January 24, 2007

We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naive advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...

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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered

Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2007 - This version: 04 May 2007

While most papers on team decision-making find that teams behave more selfishly, less trustingly and less altruistically than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group...

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Gender pairing and bargaining : beware the same sex!

Sutter, Matthias; Bosman, Ronald; Kocher, Martin; … - 2008 - This version: December 2008

We study the influence of gender and gender pairing on economic decision making in an experimental two-person bargaining game where the other party's gender is known to both actors. We find that (1) gender per se has no significant effect on behavior, whereas (2) gender pairing systematically...

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Conditional cooperation on three continents

Kocher, Martin; Cherry, Todd L.; Kroll, Stephan; … - 2007

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U.S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public...

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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007 - This version: 15 October 2007

We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even though in reality teams were largely involved in those auctions, experimental studies on bidding in auctions have so far relied on individual bidders. Our results show that...

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