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Consequentialist view – or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty – the Deontological view. Using … a series of experiments, we investigate the overall prevalence and the consistency of consequentialist and deontological … supplemented with six classical self-versus-other choice tasks, allowing us to relate consequential/deontological behavior to …
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This paper studies the dynamic effect of observability on prosocial behavior. We hypothesize a twofold positive effect …, we find only weak positive effects of observability on first-stage prosocial behavior and no effects on second …-stage prosocial behavior. …
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The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example … crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social choices over egoistic ones. Particularly important, because cheap and easy to …) can promote pro-social behaviour. However, little is known about whether their effect persists over time and spills across …
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observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that interdependence of preferences ("altruism") results from concerns for the … functions known from prospect theory. The resulting preferences are non-convex, which captures giving, sorting, and taking …-givers, altruistic givers, or social pressure givers and use welfare-based altruism to reliably predict giving, sorting, and taking …
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preferences admit a generalized prospect-theoretical utility representation reminiscent of fairnessbased altruism. As in prospect … theory, the underlying preferences are reference dependent and non-convex, which directly predicts the previously …
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more stable. -- Social preferences ; charitable donations ; dictator game ; experiment …
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This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
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We run a laboratory experiment where some participants are selected to make investment decisions on behalf of others …, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …
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this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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this depend on the type of redistribution involved? -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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