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Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-07)
When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ...
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)
We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ...
Are They Watching You and Does It Matter? - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(2010-06)
In a natural field experiment, we tested whether being alone or in a group had an effect on prosocial behavior as expressed in donations to a recreational park. We also explored whether the presence of people exogenous to ...
Paying the Price of Sweetening Your Donation - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(2010-07)
Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in ...
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)
Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ...
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)
We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned
endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous
studies, we find that windfall endowments ...
Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2010-10)
We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on ...
Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-05-10)
We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated ...
Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Tell Me Who to Follow! - Field Experiment Evidence on Voluntary Donations
(2010-06-02)
We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the ...
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
(2010-08)
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ...