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Essays in Behavioral Economics
Lanchava, Lasha ; Katuščák, Peter (advisor) ; Duersch, Peter (referee) ; Krawczyk, Michal (referee)
Introduction This dissertation consists of three experimental studies. The first chapter is based on a laboratory experiment in the field. The second chapter is a laboratory experiment study, and the third chapter exploits and analyses a natural experiment. The first chapter of this work links two literature strands providing experimental evidence of the intergenerational transmission of other-regarding preferences and offering new insights about where these preferences originate. A large body of literature has been developed recently regarding the importance and development of other-regarding preferences. The literature on cultural transmission of various attitudes, preferences, skills, and economic outcomes is abundant. Though both the development of children's other-regarding preferences and its dependence on their socio-economic background have been relatively well studied, less is known about intergenerational transmission of other-regarding preferences and the nature of the transmission process.. The second chapter aims to understand how people behave when their choice autonomy is threatened. Despite much empirical evidence in the field of psychology, there has been no economic study analyzing? the value of free choice. This chapter brings the well known concept of psychological reactance in social...

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