Browsing DFAEII by Author "Brañas Garza, Pablo"
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Altruism and Social Integration
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Jiménez, Natalia; Kovarik, Jaromir ; Ponti, Giovanni (2009)We report on a two-stage experiment in which i) we first elicit the social network within a section of undergraduate students and ii) we then measure their altruistic attitudes by means of a standard Dictator game. We ... -
Altruism in the (Social) Network
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Jiménez, Natalia; Ponti, Giovanni (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-11)This paper explores the role of social integration on altruistic behavior. To this aim, we develop a two-stage experimental protocol based on the classic Dictator Game. In the first stage, we ask a group of 77 undergraduate ... -
Altruism with Social Roots: An Emerging Literature
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-11)This paper analyzes the emerging literature on the determinants of giving within a social network. We propose two main explanatory variables for previous experimental results on the friendship effect. The first is social ... -
Democratic Values Transmission
This study addresses the issue of intergenerational transmission of democratic values embedded in social choice rules. We focus on a few rules which have been the focus of social choice theory: plurality, plurality with a ... -
Discounting future pain: Effects on self-reported pain
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Repollés Pro, María (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-07)Empirical results are presented showing that people who acknowledge pain anticipation when expecting an injury experience higher sensitivity to pain (GREP, Robinson et al., 2001). The positive correlation between sensitivity ... -
Do experimental subjects favor their friends?
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Durán, Miguel A.; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-06)Ideally we would like subjects of experiments to be perfect strangers so that the situation they face at the lab is not just part of a long run interaction. Unfortunately, it is not easy to reach those conditions and ... -
Moral cleansing and moral licenses: experimental evidence
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Bucheli, Marisa; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; García-Muñoz, Teresa (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)Research on moral cleansing and moral self-licensing has introduced dynamic considerations in the theory of moral behavior. Past bad actions trigger negative feelings that make people more likely to engage in future moral ... -
Personal identity. A theoretical and experimental analysis
Aguiar, Fernando; Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Miller Moya, Luis Miguel (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009)This paper aims to analize the role of personal identity in altruism. To this end, it starts by reviewing critically the growing literature on economics and identity. Considering the ambiguities that the concept of social ... -
Prosocial norms and degree heterogeneity in social networks
Kovarik, Jaromir ; Brañas Garza, Pablo; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Jiménez, Natalia; Ponti, Giovanni (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)We provide empirical evidence to support the claims that social diversity promotes prosocial behavior. We elicit a real-life social network and its members’ adherence to a social norm, namely inequity aversion. The data ... -
The role of personal involvement and responsibility in dictatorial allocations: A classroom experiment
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Durán, Miguel A.; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-08)This paper explores the motivations behind giving. Specifically, it focuses on personal involvement and responsibility to explain why decision makers give positive amounts in dictatorial decisons. The experiment is designed ... -
Time discounting (delta) and pain anticipation: Experimental evidence
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Repollés Pro, María (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-11)This paper deals with pain anticipation experienced before medical procedures. Our experimental results show that individuals with lower discount factors are more prone to suffer pain in advance. We provide a framework to ... -
Travellers' Types
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz ; Rey Biel, Pedro (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010)This paper uses subjects’ self-reported justifications to explain discrepancies between observed heterogeneous behavior and the unique equilibrium prediction in a one-shot traveler’s dilemma experiment (TD). Principal ... -
Unraveling Public Good Games: The Role of Priors
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-02)This paper provides experimental evidence on how players predict end game effects in a linear public good game. Our regression analysis yields a measure of the relative importance of priors and signals on subjects\' beliefs ...