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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012
motivation crowding. In particular, we analyze how various governmental interventions affect the agent's motivation to assume … moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not … ensure Pareto efficiency without intervention. A Pigouvian tax may be efficient under motivation crowding. But the efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294483
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Seasonal social preferences
Ekström, Mathias - 2017
Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding factors of charitable tax breaks, reciprocity motives, direct social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917035
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Generosity
Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus - 2007
We develop a simple model of generous behavior. It is based on the premise that some people are generous, but everyone wants to appear generous. Although non-monetary donations are always inefficient, our model predicts donors to favor non-monetary donations when the inefficiency is relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281233
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325476
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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants
Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010
While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … Turkish university students informally self govern. By employing the public good experiment among a cohort of students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807205
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262013
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Gender preference gaps and voting for redistribution
Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto A. - 2021
preferences requires an improved understanding. We conduct an experiment in which individuals in small laboratory "societies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164121
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269624
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - 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 costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283958
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Preferences for redistribution and pensions: What can we learn from experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270867