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Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Bargaining with Altruism

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …

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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between …To understand the "pure" incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids …

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Conveniently Upset : Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others

Tella, Rafael Di - 2010

In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of the recipient's tokens,...

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Directed Giving : Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment

Batista, Catia - 2014

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in … post-experiment responses suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources …

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Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

Ederer, Florian; Min, Weicheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...

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Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …

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Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A Theory of Degenerate Autocracy

Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United States, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the...

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Ends versus Means : Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions

Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Choosing what is morally right can be based on the consequences (ends) resulting from the decision - the Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using a series of experiments, we investigate the overall...

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Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game

Baran, Nicole M. - 2010

We show that a measure of reciprocity derived from the Berg et al. (1995) trust game in a laboratory setting predicts the reciprocal behavior of the same subjects in a real-world situation. By using the Crowne and Marlowe (1960) social desirability scale, we do not find any evidence that a...

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