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Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the … allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts …, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare generosity in decisions that vary whether allocations are monetary or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496913
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the … allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts …, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare generosity in decisions that vary whether allocations are monetary or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500828
Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly on behavior in the monetary domain, although many real … life decisions take place in the non-monetary domain. Investigating generosity preferences in the non-monetary domain is … study explores whether generosity differs between the monetary and non-monetary domains and if so why. The results show that …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257602
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256193
We study in a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone for understanding human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401354
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the … allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts …, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare generosity in decisions that vary whether allocations are monetary or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175091
Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119293
We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between … by altruism toward the recipient. We argue that opting out indicates that giving is also motivated by self-image concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109429