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Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences and beliefs

Englmaier, Florian; Riedl, Arno; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...

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Institution formation in public goods games

Kosfeld, Michael (contributor); Okada, Akira (contributor); … - 2006

Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come into existence. In this paper we investigate, both...

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Public goods provision and sanctioning in privileged groups

Reuben, Ernesto (contributor); Riedl, Arno (contributor) - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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Enforcement of contribution norms in public good games with heterogeneous populations

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2009

Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution norms to a public good in homogeneous and different heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not...

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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002

three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very …

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Demanding occupations and the retirement age

Vermeer, Niels; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Soest, Arthur van - 2015

In several countries where pensions are reformed and the retirement age is increased, the issue came up to make an exception for workers with demanding occupations, since health considerations may make it unreasonable to expect them to work longer. We analyze unique Dutch survey data on the...

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A structural labour supply model with nonparametric preferences

Soest, Arthur van; Das, Marcel; Gong, Xiaodong - 2000

Nonparametric techniques are usually seen as a statistic device for data description and exploration, and not as a tool for estimating models with a richer economic structure, which are often required for policy analysis. This paper presents an example where nonparametric flexibility can be...

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International comparisons of work disability

Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Life satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … determinant of global life satisfaction, it is more important in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. Indeed life satisfaction varies … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …

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Heterogeneity in risky choice behaviour in a broad population

Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Soest, Arthur van; … - 2009

We analyse risk preferences using an experiment with real incentives in a representative sample of 1,422 Dutch respondents. Our econometric model incorporates four structural parameters that vary with observed and unobserved characteristics: Utility curvature, loss aversion, preferences towards...

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