-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental …

the effects by income source can be explained by social norms. Our first experiment induces random variation in both … earned income and windfall bonuses and shows that only bonuses increases charitable donations. The second experiment uses an … elicited in the second experiment match the donation patterns in the first experiment both overall and across subject …

framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …

framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …

Experimental literature on pro-social behavior has been largely focused on settings where the decision of donors is … by somebody else and test this preposition in a laboratory experiment. We let participants play a dictator game with two …

central in informing behavior in one-shot games. -- Altruism ; Inequality, Empathy ; Theory of Mind ; Behavioral Economics … corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are …