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The big carrot: high stake incentives revisited

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2008

This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...

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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited

Brañas Garza, Pablo; García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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Creating an Efficient Culture of Cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2017

that avoid these costs and whether other, more centralized, punishment systems are superior and will be preferred by the … people. Here, we show that efficient peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges quickly if we introduce … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

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Social Norms, Endogenous Sorting and the Culture of Cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018

preferred by the people. Here, we show that welfare-enhancing peer sanctioning without much need for costly punishment emerges …. The exogenous removal of the norm consensus opportunity reduces the efficiency of peer punishment and renders centralized … peer sanctioning with a norm consensus opportunity or an equally efficient institution with centralized punishment by an …

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Saving Face and Group Identity

Eriksson, Tor; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2015

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...

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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Woessmann, Ludger - 2016

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...

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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...

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Ingroup Bias with Multiple Identities: The Case of Religion and Attitudes Towards Government Size

Sgroi, Daniel; Yeo, Jonathan; Zhuo, Shi - 2021

Group identity is known to exert a powerful socio-psychological influence on behaviour but to date has been largely explored as a uni-dimensional phenomenon. We consider the role of multiple dimensions of identity, asking what might happen to ingroup and outgroup perceptions and the resulting...

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Belief Updating About Moral Norms: Does Group Identity Matter?

Dickinson, David L.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2025

We investigate how group identity affects belief updating about moral norms. Using a Belief Updating task, we found that individuals follow a cautious version of Bayesian updating. Group identity itself does not directly affect belief updating. However, when given an information signal about the...

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Homo Moralis: Personal Characteristics, Institutions, and Moral Decision-Making

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...

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