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The development of social preferences [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020
This paper examines how social preferences develop with age. This is done using a range of mini-dictator games from which we classify 665 subjects into a variety of behavioural types. We expand on previous developmental studies of pro-sociality and parochialism by analysing individuals aged 9–67, and by employing a cross country study where ...
Cobo Reyes Cano, Ramón   +8 more
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Preferences and Social Influence [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018
Interaction between decision makers may affect their preferences. We consider a setup in which each individual is characterized by two sets of preferences: his unchanged core preferences and his behavioral preferences. Each individual has a social influence function that determines his behavioral preferences given his core preferences and the ...
Fershtmani, Chaim, Segal, U. (Uzi)
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Self-interested learning is more important than fair-minded conditional cooperation in public-goods games

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2022
Why does human cooperation often unravel in economic experiments despite a promising start? Previous studies have interpreted the decline as the reaction of disappointed altruists retaliating in response to non-altruists (Conditional Cooperators ...
Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew   +1 more
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Bilingual children’s social preferences hinge on accent [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2017
Hyesung Grace Hwang   +2 more
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Migration and Social Preferences

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country's culture (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs) to those prevalent in their host country.
Diego Marino Fages   +1 more
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The evolution of altruistic social preferences in human groups [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016
Joan Silk, Bailey House
exaly   +2 more sources

Social Identity and Preferences [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review, 2010
Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to Asian-American subjects, they make more patient choices.
Daniel J. Benjamin   +2 more
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Enlarging the market yet decreasing the profit: An experimental study of competitive behavior when investment affects the prize

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2016
In many competitive situations, our investments increase our gains: Developing better products or research proposals may lead to higher contracts or patents or larger grants. Does increasing investment in such cases always guarantee higher gains? We used
Einav Hart   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preferences for redistribution and social structure [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Choice and Welfare, 2014
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Erik Schokkaert, Tom Truyts
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Health technology assessment (HTA) and economic evaluation: efficiency or fairness first

open access: yesJournal of Market Access & Health Policy, 2019
The economic evaluation which supports Health Technology Assessment (HTA) should inform policy makers of the value to society conferred by a given allocation of resources.
Jeff Richardson, Michael Schlander
doaj   +1 more source

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