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People use moral wiggle room to behave selfish. But does a narrow wiggle room necessarily produce better social outcomes? When people disagree on normative goals, economic theories of self-image predict that narrowing the moral wiggle room will make choices not only less selfish but also even...
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This paper tests motivational crowding out in the domain of charitable giving. A novelty is that our experiment …, preference elicitation allows us to focus on the reaction of donors characterized by different degrees of intrinsic motivation … intrinsic motivation, who received a reimbursement, reduce their donations more than four times as much as equally motivated …
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Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …
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In experimental games, task-related incentives are payments to experimental subjects that vary according to their …-form games under task-related incentives of conventional magnitude and compared them with choices and reasons in the same games … under incentives five times as large. Both strategy choices and self-reported reasons for choices were almost …
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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...
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There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
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experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …
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provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their design. Only a preceding stage (safe outside option vs. enter the game …
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study such preferences in a laboratory experiment by eliciting the willingness-to-pay to receive or to avoid verbal feedback …
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In terms of role assignment and informational characteristics, different contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a within-subjects design and systemically vary...
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