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It hurts to ask
Bénabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
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It Hurts to Ask
Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426425
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The ties that bind us
Muthukrishna, Michael - In: LSE public policy review 2 (2021) 1, pp. 1-7
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The evolution of morality and the end of economic man
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 24 (2014) 1, pp. 83-106
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Chapter 11 Natural Kantian or ZOO ECONOMICUS ? Evolutionary theories of selfishness and altruism among men and beasts
Bergstrom, Theodore C. - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 771-817). 2006
cooperative behavior include assortative matching in groups, group longevity, and punishment-based group norms. …
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Teaching Bioeconomics
Yarbrough, Robert - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 7 (2005) 1, pp. 1-38
behavior, and animal and human social institutions. A voluminous literature is rapidly accumulating. There are as yet no …
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A Welfare-Tradeoff-Ratio-Model of Social Preferences
Hartig, Bjoern - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011
This paper introduces a model of social preferences featuring a single parameter representing an individual …
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008
punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity … embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment …Some philosophers and social scientists have stressed the importance for good government of an altruistic citizenry …
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Is altruism bad for cooperation?
Hwang, Sung Ha; Bowles, Samuel - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2008
punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity … embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment …Some philosophers and social scientists have stressed the importance for good government of an altruistic citizenry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005533159
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Is Altruism Bad for Cooperation?
Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - Research Institute for Market Economy, Sogang University - 2011
contribution costs and punishment costs. The range over which altruism inhibits cooperation and reduces material payo¢´s is greater … cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment in?icted on defectors, resulting in lower …
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