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A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...
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Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
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inequalities are socially accepted. We combine distributive justice theory with sociological and economic perspectives on … test the prevalence and gendered application of four justice principles (equality, need, entitlement and equity). While the … sons while needs weighed more for daughters, suggesting that gendered fairness perceptions are one possible mechanism …
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Almost all economic and public choice models assume that all people are exclusively pursuing their own material self-interests and do not care about "social" goals per se. Several (laboratory) experiments address the question of the general validity of this assumption. A consistent conclusion...
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By means of laboratory experiments, this disserations analyses cooperation, honesty, fairness from a behavioral …
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