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Altruistic economic behaviors and implicit worldviews

Lee, Sun Youn; Kim, Byung-Yeon; Kwon, Hyeog Ug; Lim, … - 2014

Korea, Japan and the US. Altruism and intergenerational transfers have been widely studied in economics (Fehr and Schmidt …

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Games on networks: Direct complements and indirect substitutes

Currarini, Sergio; Fumagalli, Elena; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2013

Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in stocks affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to...

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Was ist fair? Echte und strategische Fairness in einem sequentiellen Ultimatum- und Diktatorspiel

Stoetzer, Matthias Wolfgang; Blass, Tom; Grimm, Anika; … - 2015

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Fairnessverhalten von Studierenden unter-schiedlicher Studienrichtung. Hierzu wurden 289 Studierende der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena vor zwei verschiedene Entscheidungssituationen gestellt. In diesem Befragungsexperiment mussten die Studierenden wählen, wie...

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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants' assimilation?

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2012

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant.

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Dimensions of Donation Preferences: The Structure of Peer and Income Effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

Charitable donations provide positive externalities and can potentially be increased with an understanding of donor preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments between and within subject. Donations are increasing...

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I Care What You Think: Social Image Concerns and the Strategic Revelation of Past Pro-Social Behavior

von Siemens, Ferdinand A. - 2019

This article studies whether people want to control which information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to other people. Participants in an experiment are assigned a color which depends on their own past pro-sociality. They can then spend money to increase or decrease the...

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Explanation of the donor decision-making process in the Czech Republic through a combination of influences of individual motives

Hladká, Marie; Hyánek, Vladimír - In: European Financial and Accounting Journal 11 (2016) 1, pp. 23-37

) distinguishes three basic categories of motives underlying the act of giving: altruism, egoism and investment. The paper follows on …

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Becoming friends or foes? How competitive environments shape social preferences

Dimant, Eugen; Hyndmann, Kyle - 2019

We study the interaction between competition and social proximity on altruism, trust, and reciprocity. We decompose the …

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Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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Morality, Altruism, and Occupation Choice: Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …

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