Altruistic Responses of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks: Some Evidence from Dictator Games

This paper uses economic experiments to compare altruistic behavior before and immediately after the terrorist attacks. Before September 11 the authors had conducted dictator games in which students were given the option of donating their earnings from the experiment to the American Red Cross. The authors repeated the experiment in late September after the attacks. This paper compares giving before and after the terrorist attacks and evaluates the extent to which altruistic responses before and after the attack differ by gender, major. religious practice and income level. The authors find significant differences in altruistic behavior of women and men. Women donated more than men both before and after the terrorist attacks. In addition, far more women acted as perfect altruists, giving all the money in the experiment to the Red Cross, while far more men acted perfectly selfishly by keeping all the money. Both genders increased giving significantly after the terrorist attacks.

INFLACIÓN Y POLÍTICA MONETARIA BAJO UN RÉGIMEN DE MINIDEVALUACIONES EL CASO COLOMBIANO

Este documento estudia los efectos de la política monetaria bajo el régimen de minidevaluaciones en Colombia. En el artículo se emplean las pruebas de causalidad de Granfer, la descomposición de varianza y las funciones impulso - repuesta de los vectores autorregresivos (VAR).INFLACION, POLITICA MONETARIA, DEVALUACION, TASA DE CAMBIO

Dictator Games: A Meta Study

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study explores a rich set of control variables for multivariate analysis. It shows that Tobit models (assuming that dictators would even want to take money) and hurdle models (assuming that the decision to give a positive amount is separate from the choice of amount, conditional on giving) outperform mere meta-regression and OLS

Inflación y política monetaria bajo un régimen de minidevaluaciones : el caso colombiano

Este documento estudia los efectos de la política monetaria bajo el régimen de minidevaluaciones en Colombia. En el artículo se emplean las pruebas de causalidad de Granfer, la descomposición de varianza y las funciones impulso - repuesta de los vectores autorregresivos (VAR)

The relative importance of foreign and domestic shocks to output and prices in Mexico and Colombia

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Gender and Social Preferences in the U.S.: An Experimental Study

This contribution provides evidence that social preferences differ by gender among United States college students. Tracking within-person choices over ten dictator exercises in which individuals choose one of three allocations of money between themselves and two other participants, this study precisely maps social preference types and identifies consistency of preferences within groups of roughly two-thirds of participants. Contrary to previous studies that identify a dominant social preference, this study\u27s rigorous identification system reveals that other-regarding individuals are heterogeneous and almost evenly split between inequity aversion and social surplus maximization. But, even among individuals raised in a culture that stresses equal opportunity, there are gender differences. Women are substantially more likely than men to be inequity averters and less likely to be social surplus maximizers. However, a large majority of participants, both men and women, choose allocations consistent with compassion for the least well off. --author-supplied descriptio