This paper investigates the effect of natural disasters on tourism expenditure. We exploit the natural experiment of the recent volcanic eruption in La Palma (2021), an island in the archipelago of Canary Islands (Spain), to analyze the effect of the volcanic eruption on both aggregate...

Multiple studies suggest that, contrary to economic rationale, offering monetary incentives to complete a task can negatively affect task performance. This phenomenon is attributed to so-called crowding-out effects, in which monetary rewards “crowd out” non-monetary sources of value that...

We conducted a field experiment in the natural setting of blood donations to test how oxytocin relates to empathy and altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to induce different levels of empathy by showing a...

We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel data of larger German private-sector firms, we...

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...

This paper studies the dynamic effect of observability on prosocial behavior. We hypothesize a twofold positive effect. First, people should act more prosocially when being observed. Second, this increased level of prosociality should motivate an ongoing elevated altruistic attitude, in...

Pledges feature in international climate cooperation since the 2015 Paris Agreement. We explore how differences in pledgers' trustworthiness affect outcomes in a social dilemma that parallels climate change. In an online experiment, two participants interact with a randomly matched third player...

We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important economic and political behaviors. We provide, in particular, an overview of the empirically...

Social preferences shape behavioral principles in various aspects of society. Therefore, it is important to understand the determinants of social preferences to ensure the overall efficacy of any organizations. However, little is known about how repeated daily interactions foster social...

The article discusses the concepts of altruism and prosocial behavior and their importance in interdisciplinary studies of behavioral economics. The basic theoretical models and concepts of altruism in Behavioral Economics are reviewed. Altruism is shown to be a hidden and complicated form of...

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...

While problems in the housing system in Ireland have been under the spotlight for the last decade, relatively little attention has been paid to the experience of children and to the consequences of housing issues for child development. International research has highlighted a range of effects of...

We combined a natural experiment (the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020) with the tools of laboratory experiments to study whether and how an unprecedented shock on social interactions (the introduction and abrogation of a nationwide lockdown) affected the evolution of individuals'...

Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...

Several models of social preferences have been developed at the intersection of social psychology and behavioral economics, such as social value orientation (SVO) and conditional cooperation. Whereas SVO is well researched in its dispositional and situational correlates, we aim to locate...

Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...

Junge Menschen sehen sich durch die Klimakrise einer Einschränkung ihrer Entfaltungs- und Lebensmöglichkeiten gegenübergestellt. Diese explorative Studie verdeutlicht, wie sowohl die Wahrnehmung der Klimakrise, die Verantwortungsattribution, die wahrgenommene Handlungswirksamkeit und die...

This paper explores whether the experience of a severe recession during early adulthood shapes individuals' prosocial attitudes. The analysis uses survey responses to experimentally validated questions that measure prosocial attitudes for approximately 65,000 respondents in 75 countries. The...

Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social media networks in August 2014, aiming to...

We comprehensively investigate misperceptions about pro-social behavior and the extent to which punishment and rewarding is under- or overestimated in laboratory experiments. Our games and treatments cover a large range of decision environments, in which there are different (i) trade-offs (e.g.,...

We experimentally investigate the relationship between unethical behaviors through misreporting choices in the workplace and the perceived social inappropriateness of these unethical decisions. We conducted a norm-elicitation experiment in which we considered two unethical actions as observed in...

Our test procedure for discrimination in lending combines denial rates and recovery rates and is applicable to simple and intersectional discrimination regardless of the profit orientation of the lender. Using a European microcredit dataset, the tests reveal that the positive—and socially...

The goal of this study is to examine the impact of follower’s conflict behavior (FCB) on work engagement (WE), as well as how transformational leadership (TL), leader-member exchange (LMX) and team member exchange (TMX) govern the link between dimensions of FCB problem-solving behavior (PSB),...

We experimentally study how (un)selfish lies are reciprocated—or not—in subsequent economic interactions in a labor market. The experiment was conducted in two sequential stages, where the first stage was a deception game, and the second stage was a gift-exchange game. We find that while...

Multiple studies suggest that, contrary to economic rationale, offering monetary incentives to complete a task can negatively affect task performance. This phenomenon is attributed to so-called crowding-out effects, in which monetary rewards “crowd out” non-monetary sources of value that...

Prosocial behaviors –actions aimed to benefit other individuals, groups, or communities– are important for promoting and maintaining a healthy society. Extant research on the contextual factors that make individuals more likely to engage in prosocial behaviors has mainly looked at their...

Automation, even while increasing aggregate employment in the long run, can displace and cause significant harm to incumbent employees. We propose that managers’ prosocial preferences, specifically their desire not to displace and harm their employees, deter investing in automation innovation....

The paper studies whether (and how) redistributive choices aim to reward others’ sacrifice of their own interest for the community’s sake and whether this introduces a trade-off between the willingness to reward cooperation and a pure meritocratic ideal. We design an online social preference...

Prosocial CEOs advocate for social issues through supporting politicians representing their social values. We focus on two types of social issues: racial inequality and gun violence. Using personal charitable donation behavior to identify prosocial CEOs, we find that firms with prosocial CEOs...