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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401354
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529903
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014246274
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How to design the ask? : funding units vs. giving money
Diederich, Johannes; Epperson, Raphael; Goeschl, Timo - 2022 - This version: December 9, 2022
Unit donations are an alternative fundraising scheme in which potential donors choose how many units of a charitable … good to fund, rather than just giving money. Based on evidence from an online experiment with 8,673 participants, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468279
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459190
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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
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Rankings and risk-taking in the finance industry
Kirchler, Michael; Lindner, Florian; Weitzel, Utz - 2016
Rankings are a pervasive feature of the finance industry. Although they have no direct monetary consequences, rankings provide utility for intrinsic (positive self-image) and extrinsic (status) reasons. We recruit a unique subject pool of 204 financial professionals and investigate how anonymous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417442
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law …. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009735335
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193289