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Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013

Willingness to take risk depends on whether the risk affects others as well as oneself and on how the risk affects oneś position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment that explores individual attitudes to lotteries...

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"Even a single package of pastas will help ... " : the effectiveness of the legitimizing paltry contribution technique on altruism

Jacob, Céline; Charles-Sire, Virginie; Guéguen, Nicolas - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 42 (2013) 4, pp. 828-836

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …

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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees : evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2014

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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