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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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, but not of pure altruism, workers exert substantially more effort when their work is consequential to their employer, but … are insensitive to the precise return to the employer. Turning to reciprocity, we find little evidence of a response to … anything, positive reciprocity in response to monetary ‘gifts' may be larger than negative reciprocity. We revisit the results …
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aversion, time preference, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and trust to uncover that contemporary …
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lifting) matter less when individuals are more patient and altruistic, or exhibit less negative reciprocity. To account for …
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reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76 countries. The data reveal substantial heterogeneity in preferences …
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crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …
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are characterized by multifaceted social preferences, encompassing reciprocity, altruism, and inequality aversion …
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In settings with uncertainty, tension exists between ex ante and ex post notions of fairness (e.g., equal opportunity … findings suggest that the most common attitude toward fairness involves a time-consistent preference for applying naive …
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We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
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Recent discoveries in behavioral economics have led scholars to question the underpinnings of neoclassical economics. We use insights gained from one of the most influential lines of behavioral research -- gift exchange -- in an attempt to maximize worker effort in two quite distinct tasks: data...
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