BackBrowsing Artículos by Author "KOVARIK , JAROMIR"
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Exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic environment and generosity
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Jorrat, Diego; Alfonso Costillo, Antonio; Espín, Antonio M.; García Muñoz, Teresa María; Kovarik, Jaromir
(Royal Society, 2022-01-12)
[EN] We report data from an online experiment which allows us to study how generosity changed over a 6-day period during the initial explosive growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in Andalusia, Spain, while the country was under ... -
How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex?
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng; Kovarik, Jaromir; Logan, Trevon (Nature Publishing Group, 2014-12-18)
Sex workers are traditionally considered important vectors of transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI). The role of clients is commonly overlooked, partially due to the lack of evidence on clients' position ... -
Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Jorrat, Diego; Kovarik, Jaromir; López, María C. (Public Library Of Science, 2021-08-25)
Using an incentivized experiment with statistical power, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome ... -
Natural Disasters and Indicators of Social Cohesion
Calo Blanco, Aitor; Kovarik, Jaromir; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, José Gabriel (Public Library Science, 2017-06-07)
Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and ... -
Prosocial behavior and gender
Espinosa Alejos, María Paz; Kovarik, Jaromir (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-04-14)
This study revisits different experimental data sets that explore social behavior in economic games and uncovers that many treatment effects may be gender-specific. In general, men and women do not differ in "neutral" ... -
Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio Has a Non-Monotonic Impact on Altruism
Brañas Garza, Pablo; Kovarik, Jaromir; Neyse, Levent (PLoS ONE, 2013-05-10)
Gene-culture co-evolution emphasizes the joint role of culture and genes for the emergence of altruistic and cooperative behaviors and behavioral genetics provides estimates of their relative importance. However, these ...