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Meaning and credibility in experimental cheap‐talk games

Lai, Ernest K.; Lim, Wooyoung - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 3, pp. 1453-1487

We design experimental games to evaluate the predictive power of the first cheap‐talk refinement, neologism‐proofness. In our first set of treatments designed to evaluate the refinement with its usual emphasis on literal meanings, we find that a fully revealing equilibrium that is...

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Altruism, fast and slow? : evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment

Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2018

results of a meta-study of the literature and a new experiment. Our meta-study is based on 19 experimental studies conducted … the direction of the effect of the intervention. We design a new experiment that is not vulnerable to this potential … intuitive and deliberative systems. Taken together, the findings of our meta-study and the new experiment offer little support …

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Gender and Generosity : Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?

Cadsby, Charles Bram; Servátka, Maroš; Song, Fei - 2009

Employing a two-by-two factorial design that manipulates whether dictator groups are single or mixed-sex and whether procedures are single or double-blind, we examine gender effects in a standard dictator game. No gender effect was found in any of the experimental treatments. Moreover, neither...

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Generosity across contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Miller, John H.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non-laboratory contexts often involves the allocation of consumption goods or non-monetary harm. Psychological evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity...

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Generosity across contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015 - Revised version, March 2015

Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...

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Partner Selection and the Division of Surplus : Evidence from Ultimatum and Dictator Games

Banerjee, Priyodorshi; Chakravarty, Sujoy; Ghosh, Sanmitra - 2015

-binding communication about how much a potential proposer will offer if selected. The effect is driven by the recipient's use of prior …

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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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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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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …We run a laboratory experiment where some participants are selected to make investment decisions on behalf of others …

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Does how we measure altruism matter? : playing both roles in dictator games

Zhan, Wei; Eckel, Catherine C.; Grossman, Philip Johnson - 2020

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