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Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

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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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Incentives when altruism is impure: The case of blood and living organ donations

Errea, María; Cabasés, Juan M. - Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra - 2013

The decision to donate blood and living organs is considered voluntary and altruistic. However, the shortage of donors has opened an interesting debate in recent years, considering offering economic incentives to donors. This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically, the effects of...

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Models of Caring, or Acting as if One Cared, About the Welfare of Others

Rotemberg, Julio J. - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 129-154

effect on utility. The third class of models includes those of reciprocity in which people’s altruism depends on whether … others act kindly or unkindly toward them. In the fourth type of model, inequality has a profound effect on altruism, with … specifications of altruism might have to be modified to take into account how people behave when they are able to transfer lotteries …

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Reflexiones sobre la sanidad pública en España en el horizonte de 2020

Cabasés, Juan M. - Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra - 2013

primary care and specialized care, motivation and incentives of health professionals, the growing role of citizens in health …

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Competitive Altruism, Mentalizing and Signalling

Hopkins, Ed - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

hypothesized that altruism may be a byproduct of “mentalizing”, the process of understanding and predicting the mental states of … others. Another idea is based on sexual selection: altruism is a costly signal of good genes. The paper shows that these two … will not be supplanted by mutants who have similar mentalizing abilities but who lack altruism. …

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Calamity, Aid and Indirect Reciprocity: the Long Run Impact of Tsunami on Altruism

Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Conzo, Pierluigi - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2012

Natural disasters have been shown to produce effects on social capital, risk and time preferences of victims. We run experiments on altruistic, time and risk preferences on a sample of Sri Lankan microfinance borrowers affected/unaffected by the tsunami shock in 2004 at a 7-year distance from...

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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009

In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....

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Natural selection and social preferences

Weibull, Jörgen; Salomonsson, Marcus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2005

A large number of individuals are randomly matched into groups, where each group plays a finite symmetric game. Individuals breed true. The expected number of surviving offspring depends on own material payoff, but may also, due to cooperative breeding and/or reproductive competition, depend on...

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