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experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally … motivated, as asserted by models of other-regarding preferences. -- dictator game ; altruism ; social preferences …
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pronounced. We also find a gender effect indicating that women are more egalitarian than men. However, perhaps surprisingly, the …
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We conduct double-anonymous dictator experiments to explore the role of altruism in motivating subjects' behavior. We … established charity. We find that a significant increase in donations occurs when we increase the extent to which a donation goes to …
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We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a “social planner” or a “veil of ignorance …” experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
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experiment. We find no differences between treatments. This suggests that those dictators who give are purely internally …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
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We use a range of dictator game experiments to investigate whether people avoid information altruistically. After learning about a product with positive externalities, a consumer may avoid learning the cost of the product so that she does not hesitate to act altruistically. We find that although...
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Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. Our study questions the universality of these claims. We employ a novel four-party setup to disentangle the roles that...
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rare. We investigate the significant positive reciprocity in a prior experiment which broke a trust game into a 2-stage … conjectured that the positive reciprocity was the result of the 1st dictators’ revealing their “altruism type.” We predicted that …
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What is the extent and nature of religious prosociality? If religious prosociality exists, is it parochial and extended selectively to co-religionists, or is it generalized regardless of the recipient? Further, is it driven by preferences to help others or by expectations of reciprocity? We...
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