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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266032
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The coevolution of behavior and normative expectations: Customary law in the lab
Engel, Christoph; Kurschilgen, Michael - 2011
Customary law has been criticized from very different angles. Rational choice theorists claim that what looks like custom is nothing but self-interest. Positivists doubt that anything beyond consent assumes the force of law. In this paper, we adopt an experimental approach to test these claims....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286718
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Crowding out and imitation behavior in the solidarity game
Vogel, Claudia; Heimel, Jana; Bolle, Friedel - 2004
In the Solidarity Game (Selten and Ockenfels, 1998), two "rich" persons can support a "poor" one. A strong positive correlation between one rich person's solidarity contribution and his expected contribution of the other is observed. This paper investigates the causality behind this correlation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297227
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262013
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
preferences requires an improved understanding. We conduct an experiment in which individuals in small laboratory "societies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164121
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269624
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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274945
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008
embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287831
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Cooperation under democracy and authoritarian norms
Vollan, Björn; Zhou, Yexin; Landmann, Andreas; Hu, Biliang - 2013
There is ample evidence for a "democracy premium". Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397166
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325392