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Structural modeling of altruistic giving

Breitmoser, Yves - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper analyzes econometric models of altruistic giving in dictator and public goods games. Using existing data sets, I evaluate internal and external validity of "atheoretic" regression models as well as structural models of random behavior, random coefficients, and random utility,...

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The Role of Expectations and Gender in Altruism

Rigdon, Mary L.; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …

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Accepting Zero in the Ultimatum Game Does Not Reflect Selfish Preferences

Staffiero, Gianandrea; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Espín, … - Murat Sertel İleri İktisadi Araştırmalar Merkezi, … - 2012

others can be driven by altruism and by the desire to maximize social welfare. …

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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...

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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … that must be in cash. Qualitative post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how …

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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of intelligence, social preferences, and consistency

Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between strongly incentivized measures of intelligence...

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Reconciling pro-social vs. selfish behavior: On the role of self-control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 3, pp. 304-315

We test in the context of a dictator game the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between the temptation to act selfishly and the better judgment to act pro-socially. We manipulated the likelihood that individuals would identify self-control conflict, and we...

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On the Relative Strengths of Altruism and Fairness

Tan, Jonathan; Bolle, Friedel - In: Theory and Decision 60 (2006) 1, pp. 35-67

theoretically propose that dictator giving also involves altruism, further supporting our claim with empirical evidence from four …

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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans

Zak, Paul J.; Stanton, Angela A.; Ahmadi, Sheila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

altruism. OT and altruism together predicted almost half the interpersonal variation in generosity. Notably, OT had twofold … larger impact on generosity compared to altruism. This indicates that generosity is associated with both altruism as well as …

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Neural Substrates of Decision-Making in Economic Games

Stanton, Angela A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

I present the results of my laboratory experiment where I examine why people are generous in one-shot economic games … to altruism as there was no effect on DG offers. This implies that other-regarding preferences are at play in the amount … of money sent but only in a reciprocal context. The third chapter presents an experiment on punishment. I hypothesized …

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