Similar Search Results

Jamison, Julian C. - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2011

results, yet it is straightforward enough to be used in many applied situations where altruism, or a baser motive, is implied. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366947

Minimally acceptable altruism and the ultimatum game

Rotemberg, Julio J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2006

I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of individuals who offer an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005501374

Social networks and vaccination decisions

Rao, Neel; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2007

We combine information on social networks with medical records and survey data in order to examine how friends affect one’s decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large private university allows us to estimate how peer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379737

Active decisions and pro-social behavior

Stutzer, Alois; Goette, Lorenz; Zehnder, Michael - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2007

involving a commitment. The hypothesis is tested in a large-scale field experiment on blood donations. We find that this “active …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379788

How much is a friend worth?: directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks

Leider, Stephen; Möbius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2007

social distances, but only one of these decisions is implemented. We decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism … towards strangers, and directed altruism towards friends. In order to separate the motives that are altruistic from the ones … the end of the experiment which decision was selected for payment, and a non-anonymous treatment where both players are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379800

Blood donations and incentives: evidence from a field experiment

Goette, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2008

There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in … donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning three months and involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine two …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005379808