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Strategic behavior of moralists and altruists

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2017

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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges

Capraro, Valerio - 2019

The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...

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Screening teams of moral and altruistic agents

Sarkisian, Roberto - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-11

This paper studies the problem of screening teams of either moral or altruistic agents, in a setting where agents choose whether or not to exert effort in order to achieve a high output for the principal. I show that there exists no separating equilibrium menu of contracts that induces the...

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Divided in Morals, United in Selfishness : An Experiment

Kurschilgen, Michael J. - 2020

People use moral wiggle room to behave selfish. But does a narrow wiggle room necessarily produce better social outcomes? When people disagree on normative goals, economic theories of self-image predict that narrowing the moral wiggle room will make choices not only less selfish but also even...

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Universalization and altruism

Laslier, Jean-François - 2021

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Ends versus means : Kantians, utilitarians, and moral decisions

Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - 2024 - This version: January 15, 2024

Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...

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Morality, altruism, and occupation choice : theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …

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The diversity of moral preferences : evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Thurm, Boris - 2019

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Moral motive selection in the lying dictator game

Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2022

An extensive literature documents that people are willing to sacrifice personal material gain to adhere to a moral motive. Yet, less is known about what happens when moral motives are in conflict. We hypothesize that individuals engage in what we term "motive selection," namely adhering to the...

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When it pays to be kind : the allocation of indirect reciprocity within power hierarchies

Inesi, M. Ena; Adams, Gabrielle S.; Gupta, Anurag - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 165 (2021), pp. 115-126

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