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compare charitable giving in an experiment with and without intermediation. Different donor types emerge: 41 per-cent of all …
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We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others' choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, environmental economists, and environmental social scientists. We find that...
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We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a … find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they donate more to charity, when their relative performance is made … public. In line with the competitive altruism hypothesis, a biology-based explanation for status-seeking behavior, especially …
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Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...
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position vis-á-vis others. Taking a bet can improve oneś position relative to others or threaten it. We present an experiment …
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We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
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experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether moral wiggle room also prevails, when reciprocity is a potential motivation …
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