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Hate Trumps love : the impact of political polarization on social preferences
Dimant, Eugen - 2021
Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. I quantify this phenomenon through the use of 5 pre-registered studies, comprising 15 behavioral experiments and a diverse set of over 8,600 participants. The focus of this paper is to examine various behavioral-, belief-, and...
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Why and how identity should influence utility
Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007 - This Version: January 11, 2007
This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. Within a stylised model of social interaction, we show that the development of cooperative social norms is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366516
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Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers : a two-period experiment on charitable giving
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo - 2021 - This version: January, 2021
subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430934
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A new perspective on classical choice problems using selection functions
Hedges, Jules; Oliva, Paulo; Winschel, Evguenia; … - 2014
We use quantifiers and selection functions to generalize the classical economic approach to choice. Our framework encompasses preference and utility based approaches as special cases, but also extends to non-maximizing behavior and context-dependent motives such as social concerns. We adapt the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490505
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Nudging the agents : does it reduce discrimination against migrants in the house rental market?
Zanoni López, Wladimir; Díaz, Lina; Díaz, Emily; … - 2023
artifactual field experiment involved providing information to REAs that highlighted the extra efforts Venezuelan migrants must …This study examines the impact of a behavioral intervention on reducing discrimination against Venezuelan migrants in … migrants represent the second-largest migratory group globally, with over seven million individuals seeking refuge primarily in …
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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229316
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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345126
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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342486
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How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias; Dulleck, Uwe - 2015 - This Version: February 2015
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies caused by superior information of sellers about the surplus-maximizing quality. While standard theory predicts that equal mark-up prices solve the credence goods problem if customers can verify the quality received, experimental evidence...
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The geometry of distributional preferences and a non-parametric identification approach
Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2013 - This Version: October 2013
This paper proposes a geometric delineation of distributional preference types and a non-parametric approach for their identification in a two-person context. It starts with a small set of assumptions on preferences and shows that this set (i) naturally results in a taxonomy of distributional...
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