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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082

Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness", whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414267

Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139713

Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges

Capraro, Valerio - 2019

The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...

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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What Can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008208

The Bonus-Income Donation Norm

Drouvelis, Michalis - 2019

Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858205

Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What can We Learn from Experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Johannes (Jan) J. M.; … - 2021

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. It is still largely an open question what people‘s preferences are regarding redistribution - both through pensions schemes as well as more generally. It would seem that economists have little to say about this question, as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316175

On the economics of others

Stark, Oded - 2013

. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism … deprivation. I provide examples of domains in which the incorporation of altruism and relative deprivation can point to novel … consideration of relative deprivation can substitute for the prevalence of altruism, and vice versa. I conclude that this is a …

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Econographics

Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018

We study the pattern of correlations across a large number of behavioral regularities, with the goal of creating an empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a representative sample (n = 1;000) of the U.S....

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