This paper studies intertemporal social preferences. We introduce intertemporal dictator and ultimatum games where players decide on the timing of monetary payoffs. The setting is two-dimensional rather than one-dimensional, in the sense that inequalities can arise in the time as well as in the...

Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country’s culture (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs) to those prevalent in their host country. For...

This study revisits Engelmann and Strobel (2004), who test the theoretical models of fairness preferences with simple distribution games. We execute the experiment by recruiting a panel of subjects via the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk three years prior and directly within the COVID-19...

We model a situation where a set of agents must rank themselves based on their opinions. Each agent submits a message and a function determines the social ranking. We are interested in impartial social ranking functions, that is, those where the message of an agent can not change any social...

We model a situation where a set of agents must rank themselves based on their opinions. Each agent submits a message and a function determines the social ranking. We are interested in impartial social ranking functions, that is, those where the message of an agent can not change any social...

We propose and axiomatize a decision model of social preferences under risk that captures motivated reasoning in social assessments. Our model considers a setup with a decision maker (DM) and one other individual. It highlights how the presence of risk enables the DM to egoistically exploit the...

People often tend to be more other-regarding in the laboratory than in the real world. This experiment uses between-subject variations of adapted dictator games to investigate thelarger complexity of finding out the consequences of one’s choices in the real world as asource for that...

Economists have come to understand that human choices are not only driven by self-interest but also “social preferences” – a person’s concern over resources allocated to other people. Moreover, such preferences may be affected by the environment in which such choices are made, especially...

The education systems of many countries emphasize the development of prosocial preferences. Clarifying how these preferences are related to well-being is therefore essential. Although many studies have shown that particular prosocial behaviors increase subjective well-being, it is unclear...