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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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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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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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Discrimination in the general population

Angerer, Silvia; Brosch, Hanna; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2024

We present representative evidence of discrimination against migrants through an incentivized choice experiment with over 2,000 participants. Decision makers allocate a fixed endowment between two receivers. To measure discrimination, we randomly vary receivers' migration background and other...

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Bad bankers no more? Truth-telling and (dis)honesty in the finance industry

Huber, Christoph; Huber, Jürgen - 2020

Worries about unethical behavior are a recurring issue in the finance industry, which has inspired a number of recent studies. We contribute to this ongoing discussion by investigating preferences for truthfulness within the finance industry in a controlled experiment with 415 financial...

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: Linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...

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Impatience and uncertainty: Experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Rützler, Daniela; … - 2010

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant redictors of health...

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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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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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Social preferences and political attitudes: An online experiment on a large heterogeneous sample

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Muller, Daniel - 2017

This paper investigates - in a large heterogeneous sample - the relationship between social preferences on the one hand, and socioeconomic factors and political preferences on the other hand. Socioeconomic factors correlate with social preferences, and social preferences robustly shape political...

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