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The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By … applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior and trust are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794460
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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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Revealed Distributional Preferences: Individuals vs. Teams
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897339
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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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Age and the development of trust and reciprocity
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
We examine the degree of trust and reciprocity in an experimental trust game with 662 participants from six different … age groups, ranging from 8 year old primary school children to retired persons in their late sixties. Although both trust … research has devoted surprisingly little attention to their development with age. Our results provide clear evidence that trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765128
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We study a fundamental conflict in economic decision-making, the trade-off between equality, equity and incentives, in a new experimental game that nests a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. In a 2×2 design, we let subjects either vote on or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019394
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676887
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Equality, equity and incentives: An experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - In: European Economic Review 60 (2013) C, pp. 32-51
We study a fundamental conflict in economic decision-making, the trade-off between equality, equity and incentives, in a new experimental game that nests a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. In a 2×2 design, we let subjects either vote on or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048594
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Equality, equity, and incentives: An experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159141