Responsibility-allevation and effort provision in a gift-exchange experiment
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- dc.contributor.author Charness, Garyca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:39Z
- dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:39Z
- dc.date.issued 1998-09-01
- dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:03:56Z
- dc.description.abstract Previous indirect evidence suggests that impulses towards pro-social behavior are diminished when an external authority is responsible for an outcome. The responsibility-alleviation effect states that a shift of responsibility to an external authority dampens internal impulses toward honesty, loyalty, or generosity. In a gift-exchange experiment, we find that subjects respond with more generosity (higher effort) when a wage is determined by a random process than when it is assigned by a third party, indicating that even a slight shift in perceived responsibility for the final payoffs can change behavior. Responsibility-alleviation is a factor in economic environments featuring substantial personal interaction.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=322
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/854
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 322
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- dc.subject.keyword responsibility
- dc.subject.keyword social behavior
- dc.subject.keyword experiment
- dc.subject.keyword generosity
- dc.subject.keyword leex
- dc.subject.keyword Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- dc.title Responsibility-allevation and effort provision in a gift-exchange experimentca
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