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Household decision making and the influence of spouses? income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint … decision is typically determined by the husband, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294839
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership: a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … preferences are more similar the richer the household and the higher the wife's relative income contribution. A couple's joint … decision is typically determined by the husband, but women who contribute relatively more to the household income, women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269056
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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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Noblesse oblige?: determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264458
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Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264561
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Motivating altruism: a field study
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269075
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Altruism in society: Evidence from a natural experiment involving commuters
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2011
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278513
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Envy and Altruism in Children
Häger, Kirsten - 2010
Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281627
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Choosing your object of benevolence: a field experiment on donation options
Aretz, Bodo; Kube, Sebastian - 2010
In a large natural field experiment, we explore the effect of providing donors with the opportunity to choose the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300008
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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence
Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267460