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If the worst comes to the worst : dictator giving when recipientś endowments are risky
Engel, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2015
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In … an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with … the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient they know to have the expected value of the endowment with certainty …
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If the Worst Comes to the Worst. Dictator Giving When Recipient's Endowments are Risky
Engel, Christoph - 2015
Donors may often not be sure whether a recipient really deserves their help. Does this uncertainty deter generosity? In … an experiment we find that, to the contrary, under most specifications of uncertainty, dictators give more, compared with … the donation the same dictator makes to a recipient they know to have the expected value of the endowment with certainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013735
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On peer effects : contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion
Dimant, Eugen - 2017 - This Version: April 2017
Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660748
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Giving in the Face of Risk
Cettolin, Elena - 2017
The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational …
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Giving in the Face of Risk
Cettolin, Elena - 2017
The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967583
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Motivational crowding out effects in charitable giving : experimental evidence
Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2018
This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment isolates alternative explanations for the decline of giving such as strategic considerations of decision makers. Moreover, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of...
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Risk-tolerant women donate more than men : experimental evidence of dictator games
Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A. - 2015
substantially more than men, but also show an economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and donation …
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Giving versus taking : a "real donation" comparison of warm glow and cold prickle in a context-rich environment
Grossman, Philip Johnson; Eckel, Catherine C. - 2012
This paper revisits the question of framing and the provision of public goods. It also addresses the question, is giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that we employ a real donationʺ lab experiment in a...
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Gender effects in dictator game giving : women favour female recipients
Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: April 22, 2018
Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...
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Behaviorally efficient remedies : an experiment
Engel, Christoph; Freund, Lars - 2017
Under common law, the standard remedy for breach of contract is expectation damages. Under continental law, the standard is specific performance. The common law solution is ex post efficient. But is it also ex ante efficient? We use experimental methods to test whether knowing that...
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