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Essays on social contexts for prosocial behavior

Gelhaar, Felix - 2019

This dissertation studies the role of social contexts for prosocial behavior. Motivated by insights from psychology, preferences are assumed to be context-sensitive. The extent to which individuals are prosocial depends therefore on the social and economic context. This dissertation investigates...

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How universal is behavior?

Brandts, Jordi; Saijō, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2002

This paper studies behavior in experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a view of...

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Revealed preferences in sequential prisoners' dilemma : a horse-race between five utility functions

Miettinen, Topi; Kosfeld, Michael; Fehr, Ernst; … - 2017

We experimentally investigate behavior and beliefs in a sequential prisoner's dilemma. Each subject had to choose an action as first-mover and a conditional action as second-mover. All subjects also had to state their beliefs about others' second-mover choices. We find that subjects' beliefs...

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The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: the CC strategy

Kosfeld, Michael - 2019

human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly …

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The coordination value of monetary exchange : experimental evidence

Camera, Gabriele; Casari, Marco - 2011

Under what conditions can cooperation be sustained in a network of strangers? Here we study the role of institutions … possible, including full intertemporal cooperation supported by a social norm based on community punishment of defectors. We … coordination on intertemporal cooperation in ways that networks of strangers were unable to achieve through social norms. …

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Cooperating over losses and competing over gains : a social dilemma experiment

Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2016

whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the traveler's dilemma in the gain …

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. 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 … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

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The shape of warm glow : field experimental evidence from a fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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Pocketbook voting, social preferences, and expressive motives in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2017

strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental …

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