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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509266
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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022
framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433309
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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022
framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484987
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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022
We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412658
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The impact of microfinance on pro-social behaviors : experimental evidence of public goods contributions in Uganda
McCannon, Bryan; Rodriguez, Zachary - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523371
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Pocketbook voting, social preferences, and expressive motives in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2017
strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657009
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496966
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Is a public goods experiment like Fight Club? : strategic interaction and the crowding-out effect on altruism
Filippin, Antonio; Raimondi, Manuela; Puglisi, Riccardo - 2009 - This version: 1 October 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752036
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Social norms and preferences for generosity are domain dependent
Erkut, Hande - 2018
Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is important to understand a large class of situations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944334
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More than outcomes : the role of self-image in other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014
We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475637