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For love or reward? Characterising preference for giving to parents in an experimental setting

Porter, Maria; Adams, Abi - 2014

This paper examines the motivation for intergenerational transfers between adult children and their parents, and the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, in an experimental setting. Participants in our experiment play a series of dictator games with parents and strangers, in which we...

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Monitoring and Pay: An Experiment on Employee Performance under Endogenous Supervision

Dittrich, Dennis A. V.; Kocher, Martin G. - 2011

solely rely on the reciprocity of employees. …

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You Owe Me

Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...

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When pay increases are not enough: The economic value of wage Delegation in the field

Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014

By conducting a natural field experiment, we test whether a managerial policy of allowing employees to self-determine their wages is as successful as recently suggested by laboratory evidence. We find that this policy indeed enhances performance. However, our data is clearly at odds with the...

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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kvaløy, Ola - 2014

experimentally investigate the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental reciprocity by running a two-period repeated trust … do not know and hence the second period comes as a surprise. We find that subjects anticipate instrumental reciprocity …, and that intrinsic reciprocity is rewarded. In fact, the total level of cooperation, in which trust is reciprocated, is …

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Altruism with Social Roots: an Emerging Literature

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espinosa, María Paz - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2006

positive impact on giving. The second variable is strategic and is based on reciprocity: the possibility of ex-post favors …

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Trust, Reciprocity and Institutional Design: Lessons from Behavioural Economics

Pelligra, Vittorio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2006

Trust and reciprocity are the bond of society (Locke), but economic agents are both self-interested and intrinsically … critically discussed as well as relational behavioural principles (e.g. trust and reciprocity). The implications of this enlarged …

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How to incentive Who? Intra-personal and inter-personal mechanisms

Pelligra, V. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2004

other behavioral principles. Intrinsic motivations, reciprocity and trust being the most prominent among them. The paper …

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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...

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Social norms and human cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004

The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining their content, and the cognitive and...

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