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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences
Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021
Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...
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On Measuring Compassion in Social Preferences Do Gender, Price of Giving, or Inequality Matter?
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - 2009
This paper incorporates compassion into social preferences and tracks individuals' choices over ten allocation decisions, categorizing participants' behavior more precisely than previous work. We provide important evidence relevant to the on-going debate as to whether social preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209940
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Inequality, fairness and social capital
Fehr, Dietmar; Rau, Hannes; Trautmann, Stefan T.; Xu, Yilong - 2018
Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the …-off person, then we observe no negative effects on trust and trustworthiness in the aggregate. Moreover, our data do not support …; groups of unsuccessful persons are least efficient and least generous in the trust game. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874017
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Trust, Inequality and the Market
Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P.; Tan, Jonathan H. W.; Zizzo, … - 2009
We present an experimental investigation of how inequality affects trust and trustworthiness in non market and in … than they are in the non market settings, but trust in markets appears generally more vulnerable to the introduction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209212
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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality
Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023
While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500522
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455853
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2016
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477514
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687758
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064400
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The formation of prosociality : causal evidence on the role of social environment
Kosse, Fabian; Deckers, Thomas; Pinger, Pia; … - 2018
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855632