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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811816
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Partisan Interactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2015
Since campaign contributions reveal the actor’s party leanings, they take place in a domain of social observation and are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We sent letters to 92,000 contributors from all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146325
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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269424
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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940301
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Altruism and strategic giving in children and adolescents
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D.; Kodaverdian, Niree - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739943
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Racial differences in inequality aversion : evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game
Griffin, John David; Nickerson, David W.; Wozniak, … - 2011
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233933
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Will there be blood? Incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are consistent with blood donors responding to incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269489
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269624
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How much is a friend worth? : Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks
Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007
social distances, but only one of these decisions is implemented. We decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism … towards strangers, and directed altruism towards friends. In order to separate the motives that are altruistic from the ones … that decision-makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715773
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One chance in a million: altruism and the bone marrow registry
Bergstrom, Theodore C.; Garratt, Rod; Sheehan-Connor, Damien - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1309-1334
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