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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462709
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a largescale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, oneshot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571478
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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568487
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Is Trust a Bad Investment?
Ashraf, Nava; Bohnet, Iris; Piankov, Nikita - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2004
This paper examines whether trust is an investment decision under uncertainty, based on the expectation of … trustworthiness, and whether trustworthiness is reciprocity, conditional on one?s counterpart?s behavior. In trust experiments in … Russia, South Africa and the United States, two thirds of the subjects who trust do not expect trust to pay monetarily. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673537
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Trust in cooperation or ability? – An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party’s cooperation and trust in ability. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588002
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Wallflowers Doing Good: Field and Lab Evidence of Heterogeneity in Reputation Concerns
Jones, Daniel; Linardi, Sera - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2012
An extensive literature on reputation signaling has focused on the desire for positive reputation. In our paper we provide field and lab evidence that some individuals are averse to any form of reputation; this aversion correlates with gender in a prosocial setting. We formalize our hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908263
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Giving, taking, and gender in dictator games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Jeon, Joo Young; Saha, Bibhas - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014
We investigate whether a pure framing has any effect on the decisions made in a dictator game. We run a between subject dictator game with a giving and a taking frame whilst keeping the strategy space the same. Complying with the literature we find no overall difference in the amount allocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937812
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Can't Touch This! Similarity And Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"
Johnson, David; Goerg, Sebastian; Rogers, Jonathan - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2014
Traditionally, larger than equilibrium allocations by proposers in Dictator Games (gifts) have been explained by aspects of altruism, reciprocity, and fairness. However, this assumes the gift to be mutually desirable to the proposer and responder. Giving may also be driven by a desire of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960259
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Can't Touch This! Similarity And The Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Johnson, David B.; Rogers, Jonathan D. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2014
Traditionally, allocations by dictators in Dictator Games (gifts) have been explained by aspects of altruism, reciprocity, and fairness. However, this assumes the gift to be desirable to the dictators and responder. Giving may also be driven by the source of the endowment. We examine this by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753978
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Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?
Cadsby, C. Bram; Servátka, Maros; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009
Employing a two-by-two factorial design that manipulates whether dictator groups are single or mixed-sex and whether procedures are single or double-blind, we examine gender effects in a standard dictator game. No gender effects were found in any of the experimental treatments. Moreover, neither...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558427