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Social preferences under risk: an experimental analysis
Bradler, Christiane - 2009
The literature on social preferences provides overwhelming evidence of departures from pure self-interest of individuals. Experiments show that people care about others' well-being and their relative standing. This paper investigates whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299505
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Social preferences under risk: an experimental analysis
Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
The literature on social preferences provides overwhelming evidence of departures from pure self-interest of individuals. Experiments show that people care about others' well-being and their relative standing. This paper investigates whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500715
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"Pay-later" vs. "pay-as-you-go": Experimental evidence on present-biased overconsumption and the importance of timing
Werthschulte, Madeline - 2020
When consuming goods provided by public utilities, such as telecommunication, water, gas or electricity, the predominant payment scheme is pay-later billing. This paper identifies one potential consequence of pay-later schemes, present-biased overconsumption of the respective good, and tests the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405659
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Fair cake-cutting in practice
Kyropoulou, Maria; Ortega, Josué; Segal-Halevi, Erel - 2018
with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free procedures, in particular Selfridge-Conway, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946257
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303003
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Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers: A two-period experiment on charitable giving
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo - 2021
We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions of more than 700 participants. We vary how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012435791
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756432
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Fiscal integration in the eurozone: Economic effects of two key scenarios
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2013
lead to moderate gains in terms of stabilization while redistribution would flow especially towards the Eastern European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327536
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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2014
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329226
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011028