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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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Altruism in Cyberspace : The Voluntary Sharing of Goods On-Line
Levine, Sheen S. - 2014
views is on the internet, which has enabled new venues for interaction and cooperation. Here I study an internet … hypothesize on the sources of such wide-ranging cooperation. I then consider several alternative explanations: low cost, gain from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039957
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Motives for giving : a reanalysis of two classic public goods experiments
Ashley, Richard A.; Ball, Sheryl Beth; Eckel, Catherine C. - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2010) 1, pp. 15-26
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Conditional Cooperation in Students’ Stated Contributions to a Public Good
Meyer, Andrew - 2015
cooperation and are consistent with motivations for voluntary contributions of reciprocity and conformity. We also find that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035711
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In Broad Daylight : Fuller Information and Higher-Order Punishment Opportunities Can Promote Cooperation
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis - 2013
The expectation that non-cooperators will be punished can help to sustain cooperation, but there are competing claims … undermine cooperation in social dilemmas. Varying treatments of a voluntary contributions experiment, we find that availability … of higher-order punishment opportunities increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the …
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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
making ; choice behavior ; public goods ; experimental economics ; altruism ; fairness ; conditional reciprocity …
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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour
Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018
Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936008
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Risking Your Life Without a Second Thought : Intuitive Decision-Making and Extreme Altruism
Rand, David G.; Epstein, Ziv - 2014
-stakes extreme altruism may be largely motivated by automatic, intuitive processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146581
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A Comparative Statics Analysis of Punishment in Public-Good Experiments
Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2007
contributions increase monotonically in punishment effectiveness. High effectiveness leads to near complete cooperation and welfare … improvements. Below a certain threshold, however, punishment cannot prevent the decay of cooperation. In these cases, punishment …
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