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The Behavioral Mechanisms of Voluntary Cooperation across Culturally Diverse Societies: Evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey

Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023

We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative … subject pools and highlights the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation within and across …

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Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment

Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten; … - 2019

We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision mechanism to extend the temporary agent's group...

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Small-Scale Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Information: A Comparison of Individual Purchase Decisions with Contributions to a Club Good

Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie; Raya, Alia Bihrajihant; … - 2024

contributions will depend on social preferences and beliefs about the contributions of others. Our study shows that the WTP for soil …

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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children

Cipriani, Marco; Giuliano, Paola; Jeanne, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find...

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Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022

We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In five lab and online experiments (n=2,584), we document a robust...

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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 study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...

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Using the Strategy Method and Elicited Beliefs to Explain Group Size and MPCR Effects in Public Good Experiments

Gächter, Simon; Fages, Diego Marino - 2023

In this paper we disentangle the role of cooperative preferences and beliefs for explaining MPCR and group size effects … attitudes and beliefs. We measure cooperative attitudes using the incentive-compatible strategy method by Fischbacher et al …, differences in cooperation levels observed across the various games are mostly due to differences in beliefs. …

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation: field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz - 2006

We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...

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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 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...

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Revisiting strategic versus non-strategic cooperation

Reuben, Ernesto; Suetens, Sigrid - 2009

We use a novel experimental design to disentangle strategically- and non-strategically-motivated cooperation. By using contingent responses in a repeated sequential prisoners' dilemma with a known probabilistic end, we differentiate end-game behavior from continuation behavior within individuals...

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