We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected …; and (iv) an age effect, with mature-aged people eliciting a higher degree of altruism. …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

to a drive but are ineligible to donate when incentives are offered. Further evidence from a small-scale field experiment …We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information … incentives in a standard way; offering donors economic incentives significantly increases turnout and blood units collected, and …

destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 …

representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …

you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …