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We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...
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the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure …. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient …
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We refine the understanding of individual preferences across social lotteries, whereby the payoffs of a pair of subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that there is a wide variety of individual preferences and...
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It is now generally accepted that some people are more altruistic, more trusting, or more reciprocal than others, but it is still unclear whether these differences are innate or a consequence of nurture. We analyse the correlation between handedness and social preferences in the lab and find...
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This paper examines some neglected implications of altruism in deterministic voting models in settings where voters …
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altruism, I argue, we need to embed altruistic dispositions in a more comprehensive moral framework. I propose that a theory of …Advocates of altruism maintain that altruism is an inherently beneficial and, therefore, morally desirable motivational … disposition towards furthering other people's good. In this paper I dispute this claim by showing various ways in which altruism …
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study arrives at a formal theoretical general equilibrium parameterization of morality. Suppose all socioeconomic agents are … boundedly rational and seek to act rationally. Under the stated condition, rationality consists in `moral actions' and Morality … has, explicitly parameterization as, Altruism. If there exist behavioral frictions within a society, only those frictions …
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and effort choices, in these three jobs, to preferences for altruism and morality that are structurally estimated. The … predictions are tested in pre-registered experiments. We also estimate proxies for altruism/morality from the dictator … corrupt public sector job. The effects of altruism on occupational choice are subtle, but altruism positively influences the …
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counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies …
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