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From the regulation of sports to lawmaking in parliament, in many situations one group of people ("agents") make decisions that affect payoffs of others ("principals") who may offer action-contingent transfers in order to sway the agents' decisions. Prat and Rustichini (2003) characterize...
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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From the regulation of sports to lawmaking in parliament, in many situations one group of people ("agents") make decisions that affect the payoffs of others ("principals") who may offer action-contingent transfers in order to sway the agents' decisions. Prat and Rustichini (2003) characterize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102977
Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231416
In this note we shall discuss a concept that - despite its prominence in both Hume (1739) and Smith (1759), its obvious relevance for social behavior, and its not so infrequent use in colloquial language - has never gained a foothold in economic theory: the concept of empathy. Specifically, we...
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We provide the first field evidence pointing at the role of pure self-image, inde-pendent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals appear to engage in self-deception to...
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We provide the first field evidence for the role of pure self-image, independent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individuals engage in self-deception to preserve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900056
We provide the first field evidence for the role of pure self-image, independent of social image, in charitable giving. In an online fundraising campaign for a social youth project run on an opera ticket booking platform we document how individ-uals engage in self-deception to preserve their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811273