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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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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
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Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous studies, we find that windfall endowments significantly increase the amount donated. The impact of moving from earned to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008525392
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Are women expected to be more generous?
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Aguiar, Fernando; Jiménez, Natalia; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2007
This paper analyzes if men and women are expected to behave dif- ferently regarding altruism. Since the dictator game provides the most suitable design for studying altruism and generosity in the lab setting, we use a modi.ed version to study the beliefs involved in the game. Our results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138510