Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment
Recent developments in behavioral and experimental economics have shown that many people display other-regarding motives, in addition to self-interest. These social preferences – which include inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and motives for punishment – make sense of a number of phenom...
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| description | Recent developments in behavioral and experimental economics have shown that many people display other-regarding motives, in addition to self-interest. These social preferences – which include inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and motives for punishment – make sense of a number of phenomena left unexplained by standard economic theory. This thesis is a collection of studies examining social preferences using the tools of experimental economics. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis explaining our goals and methods, as well as previewing our substantive contributions. Chapter 2 reports an experiment designed both to replicate and extend previous studies. We elicit and compare stated and revealed inequality aversion at the individual- level for subjects drawn from three different subject pools. Chapter 3 investigates whether inequality aversion, as modelled by Fehr and Schmidt (1999), explains free riding and conditional cooperation in a public good game. Chapter 4 investigates whether observed variation in the directionality of punishment between two subject pools can be explained by the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis. Chapter 5 concludes. |
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| spelling | nottingham-423272025-02-28T13:45:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42327/ Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment Beranek, Benjamin Recent developments in behavioral and experimental economics have shown that many people display other-regarding motives, in addition to self-interest. These social preferences – which include inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and motives for punishment – make sense of a number of phenomena left unexplained by standard economic theory. This thesis is a collection of studies examining social preferences using the tools of experimental economics. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis explaining our goals and methods, as well as previewing our substantive contributions. Chapter 2 reports an experiment designed both to replicate and extend previous studies. We elicit and compare stated and revealed inequality aversion at the individual- level for subjects drawn from three different subject pools. Chapter 3 investigates whether inequality aversion, as modelled by Fehr and Schmidt (1999), explains free riding and conditional cooperation in a public good game. Chapter 4 investigates whether observed variation in the directionality of punishment between two subject pools can be explained by the “Culture of Honor” hypothesis. Chapter 5 concludes. 2017-07-19 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42327/1/Benjamin%20Beranek%20-%204197144%20-%20Thesis.pdf Beranek, Benjamin (2017) Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Economics Psychological aspects Equality Cooperation Punishment |
| spellingShingle | Economics Psychological aspects Equality Cooperation Punishment Beranek, Benjamin Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| title | Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| title_full | Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| title_fullStr | Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| title_short | Essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| title_sort | essays on inequality aversion, conditional cooperation, and punishment |
| topic | Economics Psychological aspects Equality Cooperation Punishment |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42327/ |