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Bolle, Friedel - 2016

Bargaining results emerge from the interplay of strategic options and social preferences. For every bargaining game, however, the advantage of a player having certain preferences in terms of negotiated equilibrium revenues might differ. We explore the hypothesis that preferences change according...

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Inequality and Incentives with Societal Other-Regarding Preferences

Bental, Benjamin; Kragl, Jenny - 2021

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

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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare : An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - 2013

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?

Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2023

The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences-or lack thereof-is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in a...

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Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution

Mollerstrom, Johanna; Strulov-Shlain, Avner; Taubinsky, … - 2022

We report the results of an online experiment studying preferences for giving and preferences for group-wide redistribution in small (4-person) and large (200-person) groups. We find that the desire to engage in voluntary giving decreases significantly with group size. However, voting for...

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Disentangling Risk and Other-Regarding Preferences

Feldman, Paul; López Vargas, Kristian - 2023

behavioral patterns in the combined domain and is the first to disentangle elementary attitudes on risk, altruism, social …

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On the malleability of fairness ideals : order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks

Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015

How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary...

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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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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 … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401354

To Give or Not to Give? - Equity, Efficiency and Altruistic Behavior in a Survey-Based Experiment

Pelligra, Vittorio - 2013

This paper presents the results of a survey-based experiment on the role of equity and efficiency for altruistic behavior. Using simple binary decisions for a representative pool of subjects, we find that both equity and efficiency are relevant for the decision to give. However, contrary to the...

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