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I don't want to hear about it: Rational ignorance among duty-orientd consumers

Nyborg, Karine - 2008

Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...

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Playing with the good guys: A public good game with endogenous group formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009

contributions in the other groups showed the well known declining pattern. One implication is that corporate social responsibility …

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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009

contributions in the other groups showed the well known declining pattern. One implication is that corporate social responsibility …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276092

Provision of a public good with altruistic overlapping generations and many tribes

Karp, Larry S. - 2012

Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …

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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding

Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012

moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding model, we find that morally motivated behavior will, in general, not …

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The Political Man and Contingent Valuation: Motives Do Count

Nyborg, Karine - 1996

In addition to his role as a consumer pursuing his own interests, an individual may also regard himself as an ethical observer, judging matters from society's point of view. It is not clear which of these possibly conflicting roles respondents in contingent valuation studies take on. This leads...

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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences

Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - 2014

We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of "fair treatment" and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...

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Dynasties and destiny: On the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests

Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2000

We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time … relate to altruism and to impatience and we reason that long-lived dynasties will be characterized by a higher degree of … altruism and a lower degree of impatience than short-lived dynasties. …

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I – Theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. 'Dictator games' with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II – Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a 'social planner' or a 'veil of ignorance' experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...

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