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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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Do Fixed-Prize Lotteries Crowd Out Public Good Contributions Driven by Social Preferences?

Katuscak, Peter - 2018

. This raises a question of how the lottery incentive interacts with social preferences. We present an experiment in which we …

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Insurance and solidarity : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cambodia

Lenel, Friederike; Steiner, Susan - 2017

lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half of the subjects face the risk to lose a large proportion of their …

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Power and Social Preferences : The Role of Hierarchy in Promoting Selfishness

Bosco, Luigi; Marcheselli, Marzia - 2006

We run an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship between power, or the search for power, and the degree of … altruism. In particular we experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way was able to … reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and played a series …

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Role-Dependent Social Preferences

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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Gender differences in the development of other-regarding preferences

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2017

We use data from a gender-neutral dictator and public goods game setting to analyze differences in other-regarding preferences between boys and girls aged 10 to 17. The results indicate a higher mean of dictator giving, degree of egalitarian decisions and lower frequency of selfish decisions,...

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New Experimental Results on the Solidarity Game

Büchner, Susanne; Coricelli, Giorgio; Greiner, Ben - 2004

This paper revisits and extends the experiment on the solidarity game by Selten and Ockenfels (1998). We replicate the … basic design of the solidarity game and extend it in order to test the robustness of the "fixed total sacrifice" effect and …

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a reference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …

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More than outcomes : the role of self-image in other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014

We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...

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Working until you drop : image concerns or prosocial motives?

Erkut, Hande; Shalvi, Shaul - 2019

Working hard is costly, so people should work wisely. Yet, they do not always work efficiently, spending their effort on tasks that do not bring tangible benefits. One reason that potentially amplifies inefficient working is that people work in social environments where they are observed and...

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