Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 809
Cover Image
The economic preferences of cooperative managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
employed in cooperatives.We gathered incentive-compatible measures of risk preferences, time preferences, reciprocity, altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005588
Cover Image
Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337527
Cover Image
Norm enforcement in the city : a natural field experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2012
determinants of norm enforcement. -- norm enforcement ; social norms ; field experiment ; altruistic punishment ; cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742633
Cover Image
Trust, Happiness, and pro-social behavior
Carattini, Stefano; Roesti, Matthias - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288022
Cover Image
Norm enforcement in the city : a natural field experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571170
Cover Image
"Many a slip between the cup and the lip": : the effect of default-based nudges on prosocial behavior and attitudes
Gaudeul, A.; Kaczmarek, M. C. - 2016
Recent evidence suggests that default based nudges i.e. alterations in the decisional context, can have large effects on decision making and can be used as policy interventions to improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment (N = 988),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572562
Cover Image
Does nudging intentions translate into action? : why nudging pledges to charities does not result in increased donations
Gaudeul, Alexia; Kaczmarek, Magdalena C. - 2017
Recent evidence suggests that nudges, i.e. alterations in the decisional context, can have large effects on decisions and can improve individual and public welfare. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment that was designed to evaluate not only the effectiveness of a default...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694731
Cover Image
Social Heuristics Shape Intuitive Cooperation
Rand, David G.; Peysakhovich, Alexander; Kraft-Todd, … - 2016
Cooperation is central to human societies. Yet relatively little is known about the cognitive underpinnings of … cooperative decision-making. Does cooperation require deliberate self-restraint? Or is spontaneous prosociality reined in by … calculating self-interest? Here we present a theory of why (and for whom) intuition favors cooperation: cooperation is typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160699
Cover Image
From Good Institutions to Generous Citizens : Top-Down Incentives to Cooperate Promote Subsequent Prosociality But Not Norm Enforcement
Stagnaro, Michael; Arechar, Antonio; Rand, David G. - 2017
social heuristics, suggest boundary conditions on spillover effects of cooperation, and demonstrate the power of effective … institutions for instilling habits of virtue and creating cultures of cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035336
Cover Image
Motivating altruism: a field study
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269075