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Calamity, Aid and Indirect Reciprocity : The Long Run Impact of Tsunami on Altruism
Becchetti, Leonardo - 2014
Natural disasters have been shown to produce effects on social capital, risk and time preferences of victims. We run experiments on altruistic, time and risk preferences on a sample of Sri Lankan microfinance borrowers affected/unaffected by the tsunami shock in 2004 at a 7-year distance from...
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Barter, liquidity and market segmentation
Prendergast, Canice; Stole, Lars A. - 2001
This paper explores the private and social benefits from barter exchange in a monetized economy. We first prove a no …-monetary exchange avoids this limitation and enhances trade by (1) generating liquidity and (2) by segmenting the market place into low …-demand and high-demand customers in a manner which is impossible with pure monetary exchange. We provide comparative statics …
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009
may attract more responsible employees. -- altruism ; conditional ; cooperation ; self-selection …
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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne (contributor) - 2009
may attract more responsible employees. -- Altruism ; conditional cooperation ; self-selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826571
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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a “social planner” or a “veil of ignorance” experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192931
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The political cost of lockdown's enforcement
Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2021
We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens' propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the government's management of the crisis decreases with the amount of the penalties...
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Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2021
Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with "medals" when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations...
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