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willingness to pay for ex-ante communication, however (experiment 2). … equally strong if the message is written before or after the dictator has decided (experiment 1). Recipients have a stronger …
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We present the results of an experiment designed to identify more clearly the motivation underlying dictators’ behavior … dictator. This new dimension allows us to test directly for inequality aversion. Our results confirm that the inequality … percent. Thus the majority of dictators exhibit behavior consistent with inequality averse preferences. On the other hand …
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In the typical dictator game, the majority of dictators choose to pass at least a portion of their endowment to recipients who are given no endowment. We modify the dictator game by giving the recipient an endowment. We then measure the impact of varying the recipient’s endowment on the amount...
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. This paper uses framing to explore the role of helping—behavior in dictator games. The whole experiment includes both …
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I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a non- binding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 intertemporalchoices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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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/10010905864
A distinctive feature of humans compared to other species is the high rate of cooperation with non-kin. One explanation is that humans are motivated by concerns for social esteem. In this paper we experimentally investigate the impact of anticipated verbal feedback on altruistic behavior. We...
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