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Anyone up for helping the Fisherman's wife? More solidarity with accidental misery than with man-made misery
Frank, Björn; Li, Sha; Minich, Heike; Muraro, Nina; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
We examine the willingness to donate depending on whether “misery” is random generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of donation. In case of self-inflicted “misery” we observe that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004427
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Can't Touch This! Similarity And Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"
Johnson, David; Goerg, Sebastian; Rogers, Jonathan - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2014
aspects of altruism, reciprocity, and fairness. However, this assumes the gift to be mutually desirable to the proposer and … is provided to subjects in a traditional laboratory experiment. We find no significantcant differences in the proposer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960259
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Can't Touch This! Similarity And The Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Johnson, David B.; Rogers, Jonathan D. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2014
Traditionally, allocations by dictators in Dictator Games (gifts) have been explained by aspects of altruism … is provided to subjects in a traditional laboratory experiment. We find dictator similarity with the source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753978
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Can't Touch This! Similarity And The Willingness to Keep "Dirty Money"
Johnson, David; Goerg, Sebastian; Rogers, Jonathan - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2014
Traditionally, allocations by dictators in Dictator Games (gifts) have been explained by aspects of altruism … is provided to subjects in a traditional laboratory experiment. We find dictator similarity with the source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776369
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2014
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/10010877575
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889827
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2014
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/10010905864
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Generosity Across Contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - CESifo - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210786
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The Role of Expectations and Gender in Altruism
Rigdon, Mary L.; Levine, Adam Seth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A central question in the study of altruism has been whether there is a systematic gender difference in giving behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587466
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Why have Dostojewski and Tolstoi never met? On the relation of risk attitudes and altruism
Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2015
-averse people show high levels of altruism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183252