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Playing with the Good Guys - A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2013

In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...

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Do Gender Preference Gaps Impact Policy Outcomes?

Ranehill, Eva - 2018

laboratory experiment to provide a test of such a connection. In small laboratory “societies,” people repeatedly vote for a …

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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild - 2014

In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...

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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences

Bruhin, Adrian - 2016

preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …

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Generosity Across Contexts

Davis, Alexander L. - 2015

non-monetary. In two experiments, generosity is significantly higher in non-monetary contexts. Thus, the typical monetary …

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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützle, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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Altruistic Punishment in Elections

Aimone, Jason Anthony; Butera, Luigi; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021

simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …

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When Will There Be Gift Exchange? Addressing the Lab-Field Debate with Laboratory Gift Exchange Experiments

Kessler, Judd B. - 2021

Gift exchange experiments have demonstrated that norms can affect labor market outcomes and provided an explanation for … involuntary unemployment. However, conflicting results from laboratory and field experiments have questioned the relevance of gift … experiments to identify three parameters that affect the likelihood workers engage in gift exchange, helping to reconcile results …

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