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This dissertation presents three independent essays that elicit social preferences in school children by using a combination of experimental measures and survey data. Chapter 2 consider the development of motivations for helping in informal risk-sharing networks from a sample of school children...
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Recent evidence suggests that default based nudges i.e. alterations in the decisional context, can have large effects on decision making and can be used as policy interventions to improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment (N = 988),...
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The article discusses the concepts of altruism and prosocial behavior and their importance in interdisciplinary studies … of behavioral economics. The basic theoretical models and concepts of altruism in Behavioral Economics are reviewed …. Altruism is shown to be a hidden and complicated form of selfishness. In essence, altruism and prosociality are therefore not …
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