Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face
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Generosity; social distance; within-family generosity;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2013-03-09 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-DEM-2013-03-09 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2013-03-09 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2013-03-09 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2013-03-09 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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