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Stochastic income and conditional generosity
Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534829
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Consistent or balanced? : on the dynamics of voluntary contributions
Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - 2015 - Version February 2015
two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity of choice as recipient and additional incentives in the first round …
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Consistent or balanced? : on the dynamics of voluntary contributions
Gallier, Carlo; Reif, Christiane; Römer, Daniel - 2014
two-round dictator game with the subject’s charity of choice as recipient and additional incentives in the first round …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405383
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On generosity in public good and charitable dictator games
Chan, Nathan W.; Knowles, Stephen Mark; Peeters, Ronald; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 224 (2024), pp. 624-640
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The solidarity motive
Engel, Christoph - 2016
For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553331
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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
Glow ; Cold Prickle ; Charity ; Altruism … 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 context-rich environment: contributions go to actual public goods (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559239
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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018
Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898935
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Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
Furtner, Nadja C.; Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2016
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits … additional independent observations around the world confirm our main empirical results: Women are significantly more often … shaping unconditional contributions, and they seem to be more malleable or sensitive to subtle cues for women than for men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568550
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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences
John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017
We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other … decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions, free-riding and efficiency concerns for girls. Gender differences are … already established at approximately age 10. They cannot be explained by gender-specific increases in other …
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