Child labor is a threatening evil. It is particularly dangerous because it involves the sacrifice of a child’s future welfare in exchange for immediate benefit; it is a difficult phenomenon to combat because it involves questions of power within the households. This study attempts to...

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...

Many organizations rely on team building with the presumption that this will lead to positive effects only. Scandals in economic and welfare organizations as well as involving public authorities indicate otherwise – to mention just a few: “Dieselgate”, “Caritas” and the “Petrobras...

This dissertation studies how psychological motives shape economic preferences and outcomes and how these motives are activated through contextual stimuli. In particular, I focus on the motive care which is a prosocial motive that facilitated cooperation by internalizing externalities, whereas...

Die Sportökonomie hat in den letzten Jahren in Deutschland zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen, die Zahl der Forschungsarbeiten ist gestiegen, dennoch hat die Sportökonomie in Deutschland insbesondere im Bereich der Grundlagenforschung große Defizite zu verzeichnen. Im Rahmen dieses Buches wird...