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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"social preferences"”.
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Revealed and Hidden Social Preferences
<p>This study investigates individuals’ social preferences by examining the impact of group identity on economic decision-making through Dictator Game and Lying Dictator Game experiments conducted in different cultural contexts. The research compares students from Chapman University (USA) and Wuhan …
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Bridging Time Preferences and Social Preferences
… volume of research has been conducted on time preferences and social preferences, limited studies have investigated whether there is any interaction and/or trade-off between these two important preferences in human decision-making. In this work, we fill this literature gap by investigating how …
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Essays in Discrimination, Informational Preferences, and Social Preferences Under Uncertainty
… to explore discrimination, informational preferences, and social preferences under uncertainty using methodology commonly found in experimental economics. The abstracts for each piece of work are as follows: Chapter 2: The Effect of George Floyd Protests on Experimental Evaluations We …
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Identification, signaling and exploitation of social preferences: An experimental analysis
The Doctoral dissertation centers on social preferences. Three experimental studies address the identification methods and the implications of distributional preference types and pro-sociality on economic decision-making. In Chapter 1, the identification of social preference types using …
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Role of Social Preferences and Coalitions in a Public Goods Game
… action is further augmented when we account for social and other-regarding preferences in individuals, which make them care about well-being of others. While social preferences are well documented in other economic environments, their effect on the formation, likelihood and size of coalitions to …
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Standing on the shoulders of birth intergenerational mobility, inequality, and pro-social preferences
Poor outcomes arising from natural and social circumstances to which individuals are born, over which they have no control, are widely seen as normatively objectionable and potential obstacles for economic growth. Understanding the persistence and effects of circumstances of birth is crucial to …
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Effects of early and delayed visual experience on intersensory functioning in bobwhite quail chicks
… only maternal auditory cues to direct their social preferences in the first days following hatching. However, by 3 days following hatching quail chicks require both auditory and visual cues to direct their social preferences. In contrast, birds which have received unusually early visual …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
… how psychological forces and non-standard preferences affect poverty and the design of social welfare programs for low-income households. The first chapter, "Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market" (co-authored with Evan Soltas), studies …
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Examining land reform in South Africa: evidence from survey data
… on household welfare and food insecurity, and social preferences for fairness and redistribution more generally. One of the main aims is to contribute to the land reform debate by providing previously-lacking quantitative evidence on the aggregate welfare outcomes of land redistribution, as …
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Three Essays on the generalizability of experimental results in economics
… by Pelligra and Stanca (2013) to investigate social preferences in a field experiment. Our results show that two samples follow a common behavioral pattern with the only exception of a significant difference in choices where self-interest may play a prominent role. In the second study we use a …
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Measuring values for environmental public goods: incorporating gender and ethnic social effects into stated-preference value-elicitation methods
… use of proper payment vehicles. The existence of social preferences has been well established in the experimental literature and is formally modeled in this dissertation by incorporating influences of self-interest, altruism, reciprocity, fairness, and commitment in the context of stated …
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Essays in Behavioral Game Theory
… sub-optimal decisions (bounded rationality) and preferences which may depend on the well-being of others (social preferences). In this dissertation, I examine how bounded rationality and social preferences affect strategic decisions and outcomes in a variety of settings of economic interest, …
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
… including cognitive and non-cognitive skills and social preferences, as well as parents' and teacher's characteristics. We first show significant gender differences in the way the off-school time is allocated across different activities. Girls allocate 13% more time to domestic chores and 21% less …
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Three perspectives on social decision-making
The three essays herein explore social decision-making at various scopes and for various ends. At the biological level, substantial progress has been made at the neural level in characterizing the dopaminergic and frontostriatal mechanisms mediating how we learn to adapt in such settings. Chapter …
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Altruism and the role of affect: an investigation into the causal effects of positive emotions and its rationality on altruism
… modification: the impact of emotions on pro-social preferences. The results show that positive emotions causes an increase in individual altruism and do not imply irrationality according to standard axiomatic frameworks in economics. This contrasts with the view of earlier investigators that …
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