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Stark, Oded - In: Understanding Change, (pp. 219-221). 2006

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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Identification of Altruism among Team Members: Empirical Evidence from the Classroom and Laboratory

Griffiths, Barry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

It is difficult to identify acts that are purely altruistic, and do not have some level of egoism or self-interest involved. By considering situations where team members seemingly have nothing to gain by the way they distribute points to others with regard to peer evaluation, and where their...

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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). In section 3, I draw some implications of commitments in Sen's work for …

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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

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Was ist fair? Echte und strategische Fairness in einem sequentiellen Ultimatum- und Diktatorspiel

Stoetzer, Matthias Wolfgang; Blass, Tom; Grimm, Anika; … - 2015

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Fairnessverhalten von Studierenden unter-schiedlicher Studienrichtung. Hierzu wurden 289 Studierende der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena vor zwei verschiedene Entscheidungssituationen gestellt. In diesem Befragungsexperiment mussten die Studierenden wählen, wie...

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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....

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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; … - 2002

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Social Capital and the Family: Evidence that Strong Family Ties Cultivate Civic Virtues

Ljunge, Martin - 2013

I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and benefit cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I find that family ties are a complement to social capital, using within country...

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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...

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