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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments …

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Economic behavior of children and adolescents : a first survey of experimental economics results

Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2018

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...

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To tender or not to tender? : deliberate and exogenous sunk costs in a public good game

Heine, Florian; Sefton, Martin - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/41, pp. 1-28

In an experimental study, we compare individual willingness to cooperate in a public good game after an initial team contest phase. While players in the treatment setup make a conscious decision on how much to invest in the contest, this decision is exogenously imposed on players in the control...

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Complexity and distributive fairness interact in affecting compliance behavior

Bellemare, Charles; Deversi, Marvin; Englmaier, Florian - 2019

obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …

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Complexity and distributive fairness interact in affecting compliance behavior

Bellemare, Charles; Deversi, Marvin; Englmaier, Florian - 2019

obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are …

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On the effect of anchoring on valuations when the anchor is transparently uninformative

Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2020 - Revision: April 2020

We test whether markets are needed to mitigate the effects of anchoring on peoples' pref- erences. We anchor subjects by asking them if they are willing to sell a bottle of wine for a transparently uninformative random price. We elicit subjects' Willingness-To-Accept for the bottle before and...

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Individual discount rates : a meta-analysis of experimental evidence

Matousek, Jindrich; Havránek, Tomáš; Havránková, Zuzana - 2019

continents. Finally, the results of lab and field experiments differ systematically, and it also matters whether the experiment …

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The bonus-income donation norm

Drouvelis, Michalis; Isen, Adam; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …

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COVID-19 crisis fuels hostility against foreigners

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2020

Intergroup conflicts represent one of the most pressing problems facing human society. Sudden spikes in aggressive behavior, including pogroms, often take place during periods of economic hardship or health pandemics, but little is known about the underlying mechanism behind such change in...

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Prosociality spillovers of working with others

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2018

Group compensation and public announcement of performance are two common aspects of working with other people. We randomly assign these aspects to real-effort tasks. Following task completion and payment, subjects are given an unexpected opportunity to donate to a local charity. Group...

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