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An active area of research within the social sciences concerns the underlying motivation for sharing scarce resources and engaging in other pro-social actions. We develop a theoretical framework that sheds light on the developmental origins of social preferences by providing mechanisms through...
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …
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future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared … partners' expectations are well calibrated to directed altruism, but that they ignore decision makers' baseline altruism …
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