The relative importance of selfishness and social capital motives

Lindon Robison, Robert Shupp, Songqing Jin, Marcelo E. Siles and Tawni Ferrarini

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2012, vol. 41, issue 1, 118-127

Abstract: This study measures the relative importance of selfishness and social capital motives using resource allocation data collected in hypothetical surveys and non-hypothetical experiments. Social capital motives allow an agent's well-being to be influenced by his sympathetic relationships with others. The assumption that selfishness can explain nearly all resource allocations is rejected.

Keywords: Selfishness; Social capital; Social capital coefficients; Social capital motives; Standard neoclassical utility (SNU) model; Resource allocations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2011.10.008

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