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Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
Hahn, Robert; Ritz, Robert - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
tension between altruism and "crowding-out" effects (players' efforts are strategic substitutes). We find that more altruistic …
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Incentives and group identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25
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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The counterintuitive effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving
Newman, George E.; Jeremy Shen, Y. - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 5, pp. 973-983
Six experiments examined the effects of thank-you gifts on charitable giving. Results indicate that although people expect that the offer of thank-you gifts will increase donations, such offers actually reduce charitable donations. This effect was obtained across a wide variety of charities and...
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Sen's Apples: Commitment, Agent Relativity and Social Norms
Peacock, Mark S. - In: Rationality, Markets and Morals 2 (2011) 9
This paper examines Amartya Sen's notion of 'commitment' in light of Geoffrey Brennan's recent discussion thereof. Its aim is to elucidate one type of commitment which consists in following social norms. To this end, I discuss Sen's 'apples' example from his 'Rational fools' essay (section 2)....
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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 1999
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
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How important is pro-social behaviour in the delivery of public services?
Gregg, Paul; Grout, Paul A.; Ratcliffe, Anita; Smith, Sarah - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 758-766
A number of papers have suggested that pro-social behaviour in the workplace may be sensitive to the institutional environment, but there is little empirical research that attempts to test this directly using data on worker behaviour. This is the aim of this paper. We show that individuals in...
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P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision
Kairies, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We … assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as … greedy. We show that better reputational motivation unambiguously reduces the costs of healthcare provision and the magnitude …
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What's important for you in life? A general and pluralistic model of economic agents’ motivation
Zibell, Laurent - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 503-515
-interest and a generic altruism. It addresses the potential weakness of ‘altruism’ theories that the number of ‘others’ claiming …
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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria
Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015
cooperative motivation when they know the other subject's payoff information. Altruistic motivation is found to be rare throughout … the experiment. …
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Public and private environmental spending: a political economy approach
Jouvet, Pierre-André; Michel, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 9 (2008) 3, pp. 177-191
altruism by leaving financial bequests, but also by voting and contributing to the environmental quality their children will …
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