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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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We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …
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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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trustworthiness on the side of the expert. However, a great amount of empirical and experimental papers document for a range of … determinants of trust and trustworthiness in experimental credence goods markets, namely the effect of a health frame (versus a … higher willingness of consumers (patients) to enter the market. Trustworthiness, as measured by the provision and charging …
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We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert's provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert's...
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This experimental study investigates two bargaining games with twosided incomplete information between a seller and a buyer. In the first game with no outside options many subjects do not use the incomplete information to their advantage as predicted. We find that a model with adjusting priors...
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motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi …-regarding preferences - vulnerability-responsiveness is an important determinant of trustworthiness even in cases where the vulnerability of … definitions of trust and trustworthiness based on revealed willingness to accept vulnerability and the response to it. …
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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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We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...
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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...
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