Social reference points and risk taking

F Schwerter - Management Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Social reference points have been identified to be important determinants of individuals'
welfare. We investigate the consequences of social reference points for risk taking in a …

Altruism by age and social proximity

MC Long, E Krause - PloS one, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
This study evaluates the extent to which an individual's stated altruistic sentiments can be
influenced by context–most importantly, by the age and social proximity of the other person …

Estimating social preferences and Kantian morality in strategic interactions

B Van Leeuwen, I Alger - Journal of Political Economy …, 2024‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Theory suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary foundations. To investigate
the relative importance of Kantian morality and social preferences, we run a laboratory …

On the determinants of giving under risk

J Freundt, A Lange - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017‏ - Elsevier
By means of a laboratory experiment we investigate the role of risk preferences for prosocial
behavior. Modifying the way the decision-maker or the recipient are exposed to risk, our …

Cooperation in a risky world

V Théroude, A Zylbersztejn - Journal of Public Economic …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
We offer a novel investigation of the effect of environmental risk on cooperation in the
Voluntary Contribution Mechanism. Our baseline is the standard setting, in which the …

Paying for randomization and indecisiveness

Q Ong, J Qiu - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023‏ - Springer
We examine preference for randomization, and link it to conflicting preference-led
indecisiveness in social settings. In an ultimatum game experiment where receivers may …

[HTML][HTML] Do risk, time and prosocial preferences predict risky sexual behaviour of youths in a low-income, high-risk setting?

R Thomas, MM Galizzi, L Moorhouse… - Journal of health …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are particularly at high risk of sexually transmitted
infections. Little is known about their preferences and even less about their association with …

Probabilistic social preference: how Machina's Mom randomizes her choice

B Miao, S Zhong - Economic Theory, 2018‏ - Springer
We experimentally investigate preference for randomization in social settings, in which the
dictator chooses probabilistically between two allocations for herself and an anonymous …

[HTML][HTML] From shocks to solidarity and superstition: Exploring the foundations of faith

A Hajikhameneh, LR Iannaccone - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Additive shocks can substantially increase cooperation in otherwise standard public goods
game experiments. We study shocks that randomly adjust players' earnings by a fixed …

Cooperation under risk and ambiguity

L Björk, M Kocher, P Martinsson, P Nam Khanh - 2016‏ - gupea.ub.gu.se
The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the
most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural …