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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions : A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences
Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdin, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; de … - 2022
Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084025
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The Right Person for the Right Job : Workers' Prosociality as a Screening Device
Bigoni, Maria; Ploner, Matteo; Vu, Tam - 2022
The impact of workers' non-pecuniary motivation on their productivity is a fundamental issue in labor economics. Previous studies indicate that prosocially motivated workers may perform better when assigned to jobs having socially desirable implications even if effort is non contractible and...
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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment
Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141434
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057045
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Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2023
to take risks, patience, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity as well as trust. Gender differences in preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261036
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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis : Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages
Kocher, Martin G. - 2012
Empirical work on Akerlof's theory of gift exchange in labor markets has concentrated on the fair wage-effort hypothesis. In fact, however, the theory also contains a social component that stipulates that homogenous agents that are employed for the same wage level will exert more effort,...
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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods
Fischbacher, Urs - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are types of players...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783408
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Measuring Trust : Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination
Naef, Michael - 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two … experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test … a commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764220
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Do the Reciprocal Trust Less?
Altmann, Steffen; Dohmen, Thomas J.; Wibral, Matthias - 2021
We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects … trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict … that "fairer" players should trust less …
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