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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on a ltruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …

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Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age: An experiment in Austria and Sweden

Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2010

We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase with age.

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence ? A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...

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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Kocher, Martin; … - 2013

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is...

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What is trustworthiness and what drives it?

Cox, James C.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel - 2014

motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi …

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When do people exploit moral wiggle room? An experimental analysis in a market setup

Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2019

We investigate if decision makers exploit moral wiggle room in green market settings. We therefore implement a laboratory experiment in which subjects purchase products associated with externalities. In six between-subjects treatments, we alter the availability of information on the...

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Distributional preferences explain individual behavior across games and time

Hedegaard, Morten; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Müller, Daniel; … - 2019

We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...

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Information avoidance, selective exposure, and fake(?) news: A green market experiment

Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2019

We investigate if people exploit moral wiggle room in green markets when revelation is stochastic and the revealed information is potentially erroneous. In our laboratory experiment, subjects purchase products associated with co-benefits represented as a contribution to carbon offsets purchased...

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Guilt-averse or reciprocal? Looking at behavioural motivations in the trust game

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...

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Why did he do that? Using counterfactuals to study the effect of intentions in extensive form games

Engler, Yola; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Page, Lionel - 2016

We investigate the role of intentions in two-player two-stage games. For this purpose we systematically vary the set of opportunity sets the first mover can chose from and study how the second mover reacts not only to opportunities of gains but also of losses created by the choice of the first...

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