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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510510
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530593
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755326
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The values of ex-ante and ex-post communication in dictator games
Langenbach, Pascal - 2014
In the dictator game, the recipient's opportunity to send a message to the dictator increases giving. This paperreports two experimentswhich study how the timing of messages affects dictators' decisions (experiment 1) and which value recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361495
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257602
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Gender differences in altruism : responses to a natural disaster
Lilley, Matthew; Slonim, Robert - 2016
to the altruism of donors, these natural experiments help identify heterogeneity in the distributions of the latent … altruism which motivates donors. This study examines gender heterogeneity of volunteer response by blood donors following the … predictions of a model where the distribution of latent altruism has smaller variance among women than men. First, the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450040
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Generosity across contexts
Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496913
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496966
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Is generosity time-inconsistent? : present bias across individual and social context
Kölle, Felix; Wenner, Lukas - 2021
We investigate dynamically inconsistent time preferences across contexts with and without interpersonal trade-offs. In a longitudinal experiment participants make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real-effort tasks between themselves and another person. Our results reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499664
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Reconciling pro-social vs. selfish behavior : evidence for the role of self-control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - 2010
We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699659