The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...

Time, risk, and social preferences can play a major role in the development of the country. In order to explore these, we conducted a survey of 614 subjects in India. Our results based on the correlations of positive reciprocity and time preferences, trust and cognitive ability, and negative...

We examine whether compliance with the law is associated with prosocial behavior. We test whether people who comply with parking rules are more likely to reply to a survey than people who did not comply with parking rules. We find that parking rule followers have significantly higher response...