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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges
Capraro, Valerio - 2019
The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988 - 2012
Chadha, Nishant; Nandwani, Bharti - 2016
Using data from various rounds of the nationally representative NSSO survey between 1988 and 2012, we first construct national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in inequality in India but only since 2004. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653917
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Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988 - 2012
Chadha, Nishant; Nandwani, Bharti - 2016
Using data from various rounds of the nationally representative NSSO survey between 1988 and 2012, we first construct national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in inequality in India but only since 2004. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540190
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Gender differences in preferences of adolescents : evidence from a large-scale classroom experiment
Horn, Dániel; Kiss, Hubert János; Lénárd, Tünde - 2021
In this study, we estimate unadjusted and adjusted gender gap in time preference, risk attitudes, altruism, trust …, trustworthiness, cooperation and competitiveness using data on 1088 high-school students from 53 classes. These data, collected by … patience, time inconsistency and cooperation at the 5% significance level. We also show that these initial gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012440271
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The economic preferences of cooperative managers
Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019
employed in cooperatives.We gathered incentive-compatible measures of risk preferences, time preferences, reciprocity, altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005588
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368
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Do Water Managers Cooperate in Public Goods Games?
Zetland, David - 2012
as consumers.This chapter reports the results of experiments that quantified cooperation among MET's member agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115012
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023678
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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants
Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010
While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807205
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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture : public goods games and lonely elephants
Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010
While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. -- Cooperation ; Free … Riding ; Altruism ; Punishment ; Trust ; Experimental Economics ; Public Good Experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008857832