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Donations to increase productivity in public good production : experimental evidence
Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023 - This version: March 2023
This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015
a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on a ltruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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Motivated reasoning, information avoidance, and default bias
Momsen, Katharina; Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2022
and consider information. In an online experiment, where about 2,300 participants choose between two compiled charity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175566
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The role of non-binding pledges in social dilemmas with mitigation and adaptation
McEvoy, David M.; Haller, Tobias; Blanco, Esther - 2019
significant predictors of mitigation investments over the course of the experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988473
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Friendliness pays off! : monetary and immaterial gifts in consumer-salesperson interactions
Kirchler, Michael; Palan, Stefan - 2014 - This version: December 17, 2014
Recent studies find ample evidence that monetary and immaterial gifts influence effort in the workplace. We investigate the impacts of monetary gift exchange and of expressions of respect on salespersons' reciprocity when purchasing doner durum, a common lunch snack. Prior to the food’s...
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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence
Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011 - This version: 17 February 2011
strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more prominent … becomes significant in the teenage years. -- other-regarding preferences ; egalitarianism ; altruism ; spite ; parochialism …
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Group membership, competition, and altruistic versus antisocial punishment : evidence from randomly assigned army groups
Götte, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan; Sutter, … - 2010
implications. -- experiment ; army ; competition ; group membership ; punishment …
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Norm enforcement in the city : a natural field experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2012
behavior in the field. We study the propensity to punish norm violators in a natural field experiment conducted in the main … determinants of norm enforcement. -- norm enforcement ; social norms ; field experiment ; altruistic punishment ; cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742633
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Do the altruists lie less?
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Gruber, Alexander - 2017
Much is known about heterogeneity in social preferences and about heterogeneity in lying aversion - but little is known about the relation between the two at the individual level. Are the altruists simply up- right persons who do not only care about the well-being of others but also about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719833