Similar Search Results

Dynamic repeated random dictatorship and gender discrimination

Dittrich, Dennis A.V.; Büchner, Susanne; Kulesz, Micaela M. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 55 (2015) C, pp. 81-90

use this game in a laboratory experiment to investigate gender specific allocation behaviour and discrimination. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264252

Dynamic Repeated Random Dictatorship and Gender Discrimination

Dittrich, Dennis Alexis Valin; Büchner, Susanne; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

use this game in a laboratory experiment to investigate gender specific allocation behaviour and discrimination. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109459

Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Henrich, Joseph; Boyd, Robert; Bowles, Samuel; Camerer, … - Santa Fe Institute - 2001

Experimental behavioral scientists have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in over a hundred experiments from around the world. Prior research cannot determine whether this uniformity results from universal patterns of behavior, or from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790831

Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? The economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World

Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2011

While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385887

The Effect of Stakes in Distribution Experiments

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Verhoogen, Eric; Burks, Stephen - 2003

We replicate previous results showing that stakes do not affect offers in the Ultimatum Game and show that stakes also have no effect on allocations in the Dictator Game. Both results are robust to the inclusion of demographic factors.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636230

Competition for power and altruism

Bosco, Luigi - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2009

The paper analyzes the trade-off between power and altruism by using an experimental framework which involved a group … the degree of altruism, measured by the dictator offers, significantly decreased when the agents were able to trade … altruism for power. The results were more clear-cut and robust in the case of the dictator game, but also in the case of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528595

Knowing what I should, doing what I want: From selfishness to inequity aversion in young children’s sharing behavior

Kogut, Tehila - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 1, pp. 226-236

The social utility model suggests that people feel more satisfied with equal divisions of resources than from inequitable outcomes, even when the latter favors oneself. Research examining children’s behavior has shown that the tendency to share half of one’s endowment increases with age...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577291

Accepting zero in the ultimatum game does not reflect selfish preferences

Staffiero, Gianandrea; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Espín, … - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 2, pp. 236-238

We show that subjects who set their minimum acceptable offer to zero in an ultimatum game are the most generous players in a dictator game. This finding challenges the interpretation of the acceptance of low offers as payoff-maximizing behavior.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011041817

Accepting Zero in the Ultimatum Game Does Not Reflect Selfish Preferences

Staffiero, Gianandrea; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Espín, … - Murat Sertel İleri İktisadi Araştırmalar Merkezi, … - 2012

others can be driven by altruism and by the desire to maximize social welfare. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990739

Power, hierarchy and social preferences

Bosco, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

I ran an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship, if any, between power, or the search for power, and the … degree of altruism. In particular I experimentally tested whether an organization structured in a strictly hierarchical way … was able to reduce the degree of altruism of a group of experimental subjects. The subjects were divided into groups and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836078