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In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust …, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by … patience, time inconsistency and cooperation at the 5% significance level. We also show that these initial gender differences …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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as consumers.This chapter reports the results of experiments that quantified cooperation among MET's member agency …
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pillar is internalized norms of cooperation, sustained by emotions such as guilt and shame. The second pillar is the … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …
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In social dilemmas, there is tension between cooperation that promotes the common good and the pursuit of individual …
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This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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choice of effort level. This setting induces a form of cooperation if at least one of the pair is an altruist but not when …
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We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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cooperation. While the majority of previous studies equates reputation with a transparent and complete history of players' past …
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