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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa

Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2006

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa …

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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation

Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022

We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first … conditional cooperation is higher when the own gain from defecting is lower and when the loss imposed on the first mover from … role of social preferences in conditional cooperation …

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Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions

Lambrecht, Marco; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; … - 2021

hampers cooperation, as higher intelligence players are less cooperative once they are made aware that they play against …

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Does Pre-Play Social Interaction Improve Negotiation Outcomes?

Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2019

We study experimentally the impact of pre-play social interactions on negotiations. These interactions are often complex. Thus, we attempt to isolate the impact of several of its more common components: conversations, food, and beverages, which could be alcoholic or nonalcoholic. To do this, our...

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Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023

This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...

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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...

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Mine, Ours or Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - 2018

This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...

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Super-Additive Cooperation

Efferson, Charles; Bernhard, Helen; Fischbacher, Urs; … - 2022

Repeated interactions provide a prominent but paradoxical hypothesis for human cooperation in one-shot interactions 1 … mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … generally ruled out in models of reciprocal altruism, completely undermines cooperation under repeated interactions, which …

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Voting as a Signaling Device

Aytimur, R. Emre - 2012

In this paper, citizens vote in order to influence the election outcome and in order to signal their unobserved characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting does not arise, because the benefit of voting does...

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