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There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others’ interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...
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so. We find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health …
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Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
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We present controlled experimental evidence on how rent extraction by an administrator affects giving to non-profit associations. Holding the price of giving constant, we compare contributions between two conditions: a rent extraction condition, in which an administrator can expropriate a part...
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cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism, saving for one’s descendants benefits present members of other dynasties. These …
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Guided by Bem’s (1972) self-perception theory, we design an experiment to ask whether morally-motivated behaviour, e ….g., charitable giving, is history-dependent. Using a popular policy nudge, the default option, we exogenously vary altruism “now” and … show that giving “now” causes a 66%- 200% increase in the probability of giving “later”; that is, altruism begets altruism …
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jointly elicit risk preferences and preferences for altruism. Consistent with theory, we find that the standard simplifying … assumptions about risk preferences lead to significantly biased estimates of altruism. This is particularly problematic when … comparing altruism across relevant sub-groups, such as gender and wealth, leading to possibly erroneous conclusions about which …
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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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the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the …
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This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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