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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/10010500434
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/10011282461
Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations, while generosity in non …-laboratory contexts often involves the allocation of consumption goods or non-monetary harm. Psychological evidence suggests that … generosity may be higher in such contexts. We compare generosity in decisions that vary whether allocations are monetary or non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316844
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 intertemporalchoices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352199
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/10010352276
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/10011382735
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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Economists have been theorizing that other-regarding preferences influence decision making. Yet, what are the corresponding psychological mechanisms that inform these preferences in laboratory games? Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are dispositions considered to be essential in social...
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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...
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Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. Usually these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In this Dictator game study, we investigate whether social framing effects...
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