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Ashamed to be selfish
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 99-124
We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over choice problems, which are sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. An example of such a set is the collection of possible allocations in the classic dictator game. The choice of an allocation from the set is...
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Ashamed to be Selfish
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - 2009
We study a two-stage choice problem, where alternatives are allocations between the decision maker (DM) and a passive recipient. The recipient observes choice behavior in stage two, while stage one choice is unobserved. Choosing selfishly in stage two, in the face of a fairer available...
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Ashamed to Be Selfish
Sadowski, Philipp; Dillenberger, David - 2010
We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient, which represent second-stage choice problems. The recipient is only aware of second-stage choice of an allocation. Not choosing the normatively best allocation in the...
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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
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Lorenz meets rating but misses valuation
Camacho Cuena, Eva; Seidl, Christian - 2005
Using an experiment with material incentives, this paper investigates the violation of Lorenz relations in the case of dominant and single-crossing Lorenz curves. Our experimental design consists of two treatments: an income distribution treatment and a lottery treatment. Both treatments were...
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Social Preferences under Risk - An ExperimentalAnalysis
Bradler, Christiane - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2009
The literature on social preferences provides overwhelming evidence of departuresfrom pure self-interest of individuals. Experiments show that people care about others’well-being and their relative standing. This paper investigates whether this type ofbehavior persists when risk comes into...
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On the social dimension of time and risk preferences:An experimental study
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …
We report on an experiment designed to explore the interrelation of otherregardingconcerns with attitudes towards risk and delay when the latterhave a social dimension, i.e., pertain to one's own and another person'spayos. For this sake, we compare evaluations of several prospects, eachof which...
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Attitudes toward Private and Collective Risksin Individual and Strategic Choice Situations
Brennan, Geoffrey; González Morales, Luis G.; Güth, Werner - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - Abteilung …
Idiosyncratic risk attitudes are usually assumed to be commonly knownand restricted to own payos. However, the alternatives faced by a decisionmaker often involve risks for others' payos as well. Motivated by theimportance of other-regarding preferences in social interactions, this paperexplores...
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Trust and Reciprocity with Transparency and Repeated Interactions
Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran (Giri) - 2010
This paper uses data from a controlled laboratory environment to study the impact of transparency (i.e., complete information versus incomplete information) and repeated interactions on the level of trust and trustworthiness in an investment game setting. The key findings of the study are that...
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