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From the lab to the field: envelopes, dictators and manners
Stoop, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Results are reported of the first natural field experiment on the dictator game, where subjects are unaware that they participate in an experiment. In contrast to predictions of the standard economic model, dictators show a large degree of pro-social behavior. This paper builds a bridge from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652044
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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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Verified Trust: Reciprocity, Altruism and Noise in Trust Games
Brülhart, Marius; Usunier, Jean-Claude - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Behavioural economists have come to recognize that reciprocity, the interaction of trust and trustworthiness, is a … principally due to observed decisions in experimental ‘trust games’. However, recent research has cast doubt on the explanatory … power of trust as a determinant of those decisions, suggesting that altruism may explain much of what ‘looks like’ trust …
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Altruism or Artefact? A Note on Dictator Game Giving
Bardsley, Nicholas - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2005
Experimental dictator games have been used to explore unselfish behaviour. Evidence is presented here, however, that subjects’ generosity can be reversed by allowing them to take money from a partner. Dictator game giving therefore does not stem from orthodox social preferences. It can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005453726
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Altruism or Artefact? A Note on Dictator Game Giving
Bardsley, Nicholas - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2005
Experimental dictator games have been used to explore unselfish behaviour. Evidence is presented here, however, that subjects’ generosity can be reversed by allowing them to take money from a partner. Dictator game giving therefore does not stem from orthodox social preferences. It can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601962
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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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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study with 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...
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Giving in Dictator Games - Experimenter Demand Effect or Preference over the Rules of the Game?
Chlaß, Nadine; Moffatt, Peter G. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Traditionally, giving in dictator games was assumed to signal preferences over others' payoffs. To date, several studies find that dictator game giving breaks down under conditions designed to increase dictators' anonymity or if an option to take money obscures the purpose of the task. Giving is...
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Experimenter Demand Effects and Altruism towards the Experimenter
Fleming, Piers; Zizzo, Daniel John - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2013
As a stress test of experimenter demand effects, we run an experiment where subjects can physically destroy coupons awarded to them. About one subject out of three does. Giving money back to the experimenter is possible in a separate task but is more consistent with an experimenter demand effect...
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