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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
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Ashamed to be selfish
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 99-124
We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over choice problems, which are sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. An example of such a set is the collection of possible allocations in the classic dictator game. The choice of an allocation from the set is...
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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 … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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The price of warm glow
Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013
the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure …. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient …
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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 … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256193
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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences : a study on a ltruism in primary school children
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014
We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401354
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Ambiguity and excuse-driven behavior in charitable giving
Garcia, Thomas; Massoni, Sébastien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152068
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Giving versus taking : a "real donation" comparison of warm glow and cold prickle in a context-rich environment
Grossman, Philip Johnson; Eckel, Catherine C. - 2012
giving in Dictator Games an expression of altruism or an artefact of experimentation? What is unique about this paper is that … we employ a real donationʺ lab experiment in a context-rich environment: contributions go to actual public goods (i … Glow ; Cold Prickle ; Charity ; Altruism …
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Experimental evidence of self-image concerns as motivation for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between … by altruism toward the recipient. We argue that opting out indicates that giving is also motivated by self-image concerns …
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Stochastic income and conditional generosity
Kellner, Christian; Reinstein, David; Riener, Gerhard - 2015
We study how other-regarding behavior extends to environments with uncertain income and conditional commitments. Should fundraisers ask a banker to donate "if he earns a bonus" or wait and ask after the bonus is known? Standard EU theory predicts these are equivalent; loss-aversion and signaling...
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