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Behavioural Motives for Income Redistribution

Fong, Christina M.; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - 2005

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Assessing the Allocation of Aid : Developmental Concerns and the Self-Interest of Donors

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J.; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2014

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocation, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. It turns out that poorer countries get clearly more aid from both bilateral and multilateral donors. Most donors are also found to direct...

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A Status Based Motivation for Behavioural Altruism

Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007

This paper emphasises a potential purely selfish motivation for behavioural altruism. It is based on personal status …

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What Motivates Members to Participate in Co-Operative and Mutual Businesses?

Birchall, Johnston; Simmons, Richard A. - 2004

This article reports the findings of a project entitled 'The participation of members in mutual businesses'. A previous project developed a theoretical model of what makes people participate, focusing on the participation of public service users in council housing and social care services. The...

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Attraction, Identification and Motivation in Small Group Negotiations

Swaab, Roderick I.; Postmes, Tom; Spears, Russell - 2004

We examine how interpersonal and group-level factors relate to prosocial motivations and group negotiation outcomes. Three studies showed that superordinate group identification and interpersonal attraction positively influence each other, and underlie prosocial value orientations, and joint...

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Why Did You Do that? An Economic Examination of the Effect of Extrinsic Compensation on Intrinsic Motivation and Performance

James, Jr., Harvey S. - 2004

According to empirical evidence, extrinsic incentives often crowd out intrinsic motivation, thus reducing the effort … motivation crowding out occurs. Motivation crowding out is shown to be a rational response of the agent to the introduction of … motivation is also the source of the agent's extrinsic compensation. The second is when the incentives offered to the agent are …

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Using Reciprocity to Motivate Organ Donations

Nadel, Mark S.; Nadel, Carolina A. - 2005

More than 6,000 Americans die annually due to a shortage of organs for transplants. This article contends that the supply of donated organs could be increased (and thus many unnecessary deaths avoided) by the adoption of a policy of reciprocity, a kind of organ insurance. Those who committed to...

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Executive Compensation : Balancing Competing Priorities

Brown, Michelle; Samson, Danny - 2003

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Moral Motive Selection in the Lying-Dictator Game

Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2022

An extensive literature documents that people are willing to sacrifice personal material gain to adhere to a moral motive. Yet, less is known about what happens when moral motives are in conflict. We hypothesize that individuals engage in what we term “motive selection,” namely adhering to...

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Delaying and Motivating Decisions in the (Bully) Dictator Game

Bilancini, Ennio; Boncinelli, Leonardo; Guarnieri, Pietro; … - 2022

delay: decisions are delayed; motivated delay: decisions are delayed and a written motivation is required; control: no … evidence from the lab. Further, our findings suggest that the request to write a motivation makes subjects take less for …

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