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Extensive evidence from laboratory experiments indicates that many individuals are willing to use costly punishment to … enforce social norms, even in one-shot interactions. However, there appears to be little evidence in the literature of such …. We study violations of two distinct efficiency enhancing social norms. In line with laboratory evidence, we find that …
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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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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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material payoff? This paper addresses those questions in experiments that first elicit subjects' social preferences and then …
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information they process, and they are compared in terms of efficiency and perceived allocative and procedural fairness. …
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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...
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This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following …
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