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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - 2014

We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of "fair treatment" and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...

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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884167

The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

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Incentives and prosocial behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2013

Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...

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Removing financial barriers to organ and bone marrow donation: The effect of leave and tax legislation in the US

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - 2012

In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...

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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Stith, Sarah S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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The Price of Warm Glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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The Shape of Warm Glow: Field Experimental Evidence from a Fundraiser

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2018

Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...

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