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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

first becomes significant in the teenage years. -- other-regarding preferences ; egalitarianism ; altruism ; spite … a strong decrease in spitefulness with increasing age. Egalitarianism becomes less frequent, and altruism much more … ; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...

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The role of interpersonal uncertainty in prosocial behavior

Chakraborty, Anujit; Henkel, Luca - 2024

In prosocial decisions, decision-makers are inherently uncertain about how their decisions impact others’ utility – we call this interpersonal uncertainty. We show that people’s response to interpersonal uncertainty shapes well-known patterns of prosocial behavior. First, using standard...

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Dimensions of donation preferences : the structure of peer and income effects

Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019

preferences. We obtain a uniquely comprehensive characterization of donation motives using an experiment that varies treatments …

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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?

Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024

The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences—or lack thereof—is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order

Gächter, Simon - 2014

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...

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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023

Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...

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Theories of fairness and reciprocity : evidence and economic applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2000

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives … (e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

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