In a wide variety of settings, spiteful preferences would constitute an obstacle to cooperation, trade, and thus economic development. This paper shows that spiteful preferences - the desire to reduce another's material payoff for the mere purpose of increasing one's relative payoff - are surprisingly widespread in experiments conducted in one of the least developed regions in India (Uttar Pradesh). In a one-shot trust game, the authors find that...
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2008/05/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4619
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Spite and development
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public good
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