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Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? – Evidence from Donations
Benz, Matthias; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Laboratory experiments are an important methodology in economics, especially in the field of behavioral economics. However, it is still debated to what extent results from laboratory experiments can be applied to field settings. One highly important question with respect to the external validity...
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Pro-Social Behavior, Reciprocity or Both?
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Empirical evidence is provided for the importance of non-reciprocal pro-social behavior of individuals in an anonymous, n-person pure public good setting. A unique panel data set of 136,000 observations is matched with an extensive survey. Even under anonymous conditions, a large number of...
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Introducing Social Norms in Game Theory
López-Pérez, Raúl - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
This paper explicitly introduces norms in games, assuming that they shape (some) players’ utility and beliefs. People feel badly when they deviate from a binding norm, and the less other players deviate, the more badly they feel. Further, people anger at transgressors and get pleasure from...
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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...
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Environmental Morale and Motivation
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
This chapter discusses the role of environmental morale and environmental motivation in individual behavior from the point of view of economics and psychology. It deals with the fundamental public good problem, and presents empirical (laboratory and field) evidence on how the cooperation problem...
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Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior - Testing ‘Conditional Cooperation’ in a Field Experiment,
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
People behave pro-socially in a wide variety of situations that standard economic theory is unable to explain. Social comparison is one explanation for such pro-social behavior: people contribute if others contribute or cooperate as well. This paper tests social comparison in a field experiment...
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … Switzerland may help to explain the difference in the amount of U.S. and EU income redistribution. …
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Knowledge is power: a theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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Glück: Die ökonomische Analyse (Happiness: The Economic Analysis)
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
income and life satisfaction is strongly shaped by the aspiration level serving to evaluate life conditions. The aspiration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979381
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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Falk, Armin - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters contained no gift, one third contained a small...
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