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in an experiment that applies the strategy method to the ultimatum game. Our data reveal normative conflict among …
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We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...
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first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans …
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In three party ultimatum games the proposer can first decide whether to exclude one responder, what increases the available pie. The experiments control for intentionality of exclusion and veto power of the third party. We do not find evidence for indirect reciprocity of the remaining responder...
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In three party ultimatum games the proposer can first decide whether to exclude one responder, what increases the available pie. The experiments control for intentionality of exclusion and veto power of the third party. We do not find evidence for indirect reciprocity of the remaining responder...
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using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to study whether experts strategically use language to communicate … 25-29 percentage points more likely to communicate using language rather than numbers. Experts with incentives to … persuade are more likely to slant language messages than numeric messages in the direction of their incentives, and this effect …
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This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the … language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in … hypothesis that languages are associated with cultural frames and that communicating in a particular language increases the …
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mit dem Diktatorspiel, dem Ultimatumspiel sowie dem Investitionsspiel drei etablierte Standardexperimente heran, mit denen … Experiment verhalten sich Soldaten im Durchschnitt signifikant altruistischer, kooperativer, vertrauensvoller und …
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We introduce new treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism with opportunities to punish, to see how contributions and punishments change when (a) each dollar lost in punishment must be awarded to another team member and/or when (b) obtaining information on individuals' contributions is a...
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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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