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Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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Racial differences in inequality aversion: Evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game

Griffin, John; Nickerson, David; Wozniak, Abigail - 2011

The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...

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Aggregation without the aggravation? Nonparametric analysis of the representative consumer

Cherchye, Laurens; Crawford, Ian; De Rock, Bram; … - 2011

In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...

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Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2015

We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in … a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …

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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015

than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …

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Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2003

We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström?s career concerns model in which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by agents? unknown ability and the effort they choose. Before making second-period wage offers firms are informed...

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Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange : An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets

Wallace, Brian; Seltzer, Andrew J.; Huck, Steffen - 2004

-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first period productivity is positive and wages are zero …, while third period productivity is zero and wages are positive. The experiment produces strong evidence that deferred …

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Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams in experimental normal-form games

Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - 2010

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …

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Strategic sophistication of adolescents: Evidence from experimental normal-form games

Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2010

We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...

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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer … - 2013

We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive three different equity rules that can explain 43% of all offers. Our within-subject design further...

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