In the Solidarity Game (Selten and Ockenfels, 1998), two "rich" persons can support a "poor" one. A strong positive … correlation between one rich person's solidarity contribution and his expected contribution of the other is observed. This paper …

treatment in our solidarity experiment all subjects face the same probability of becoming needy, in the other treatment subjects …We experimentally examine the impact of self-inflicted neediness on the solidarity behavior of subjects. In one …

This paper revisits and extends the experiment on the solidarity game by Selten and Ockenfels (1998). We replicate the … basic design of the solidarity game and extend it in order to test the robustness of the "fixed total sacrifice" effect and …

In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust …, less trustworthy and less competitive than males. At the same time we do not observe significant gender differences in … patience, time inconsistency and cooperation at the 5% significance level. We also show that these initial gender differences …