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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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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city...
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Socioeconomic environment and mortality : a twolevel decomposition by sex and cause of death
Gächter, Martin; Theurl, Engelbert - 2010
Gender inequalities in longevity/mortality are a major area of research since the 1970s. Despite substantial insights … on the question, to which extent socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality for important causes of … higher socioeconomic status on mortality might be canceled out by a gender role equalization effect for women due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736598
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Stronger sex but earlier death : a multi-level socioeconomic analysis of gender differences in mortality in Austria
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - 2010
Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are …) we find that the gender gap is negatively associated with higher average net income, a higher educational level, a higher …
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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions
Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023
How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...
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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? : looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...
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Why did he do that? : using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games
Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016
We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...
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When do people exploit moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis in a market setup
Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2019
We investigate if decision makers exploit moral wiggle room in green market settings. We therefore implement a laboratory experiment in which subjects purchase products associated with externalities. In six between-subjects treatments, we alter the availability of information on the...
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Information avoidance, selective exposure, and fake(?) news : a green market experiment
Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2019
We investigate if people exploit moral wiggle room in green markets when revelation is stochastic and the revealed information is potentially erroneous. In our laboratory experiment, subjects purchase products associated with co-benefits represented as a contribution to carbon offsets purchased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061477
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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time
Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019
We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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