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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2011

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...

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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Fischbacher, Urs - 2006

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …

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Anger Management : Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Gee, Laura K. - 2017

aggression. In this lab experiment, we find that adopting an objective attitude (Objective), through a form of emotion regulation …

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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods

DeAngelo, Gregory - 2018

actions of bad actors. However, in many situations bad acts go undetected and unknown to others.We use a lab experiment to …

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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic Versus Antisocial Punishment : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

Götte, Lorenz - 2010

We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to platoons. We find that, without competition...

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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents : Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games

Czermak, Simon - 2010

We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...

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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining

Conrads, Julian - 2011

rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …

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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2011

This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional...

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Testing a Forgotten Aspect of Akerlof's Gift Exchange Hypothesis : Relational Contracts with Individual and Uniform Wages

Kocher, Martin - 2012

that receive different wages. We present the first test of this component, which we call the fair uniform-wage hypothesis …. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …

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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services : Theory and Experiment

Beck, Adrian - 2010

broken, and guilt is exacerbated by higher interaction prices. An experiment qualitatively confirms our predictions: (1) most …

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