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solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a …. Experimenters want to learn how much solidarity experimental participants exhibit when this is costly. But from a Catholic …
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experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally …
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In the Solidarity Game (Selten and Ockenfels, 1998), two "rich" persons can support a "poor" one. A strong positive … correlation between one rich person's solidarity contribution and his expected contribution of the other is observed. This paper …
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We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years,how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporalchoices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352199
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352276
For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the expected value of criminal sanctions, i.e. the product of severity times certainty, is often below the expected benefit. We rely on a standard theory from behavioral economics,...
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counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …
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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...
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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/10010427651