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An Examination of the Effect of Messages on Cooperation under Double-Blind and Single-Blind Payoff Procedures

Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2012

Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises in-crease cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goals of this paper are to examine messages under a...

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Do People Keep Socially Unverifiable Promises?

Deck, Cary; Servátka, Maroš; Tucker, Steven - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011

Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The original goal of this paper was to examine promises...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371391

Does context matter more for hypothetical than for actual contributions? Evidence from a natural field experiment

Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

contribution. Both the degree of anonymity and provided information about the contributions of others influence subject …

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Anonymity, Reciprocity, and Conformity: Evidence from Voluntary Contributions to a National Park in Costa Rica

Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field …

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Punishment Cannot Sustain Cooperation in a Public Good Game with Free-Rider Anonymity

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward; Mark, Van Vugt - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

be indistinguishable from those with legitimate reasons. Free-riders have a degree of anonymity. In the context of a … public good game we consider the e¤ect of free-rider anonymity on the ability of voluntary punishment to sustain cooperative … social norms. Despite only inducing a weak form of free-rider anonymity, punishment falls and cannot sustain cooperation.<p> …

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Gender and Generosity: Does Degree of Anonymity or Group Gender Composition Matter?

Cadsby, C. Bram; Servátka, Maroš; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

the experimental treatments. Moreover, neither single- versus mixed-sex groups nor level of anonymity had any impact on …

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Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women’s double burden?

Ericson, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

By using a sample of Swedish dual-earner households, this paper investigates how a transfer of time spent on paid work from the man to the woman influences their allocation of unpaid household work. It is found that their total time engaged in household work decreases. This result suggests that...

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The Effect of Neighbourhood Diversity on Volunteering: Evidence from New Zealand

Clark, Jeremy; Kim, Bonggeun - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2009

An empirical literature has found that neighborhood heterogeneity lowers people's likelihood of contributing to public goods. We show that the estimated effect of any concave neighborhood characteristic on behavior may be biased when “large” rather than “small” neighborhoods are used....

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"Household specialisation and gender equality in transition. Paid and unpaid work of women and men in Soviet and post-Soviet Taganrog"

Katz, Katarina; Sand, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using unique survey data from the Russian industrial city Taganrog in 1989 and 1998, we analyse changes in the gender division of labour among gainfully employed women and men, pre- and post-transition. In Soviet Taganrog, dual earner families predominated, but nevertheless men were usually...

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The Wealth Paradox Revisited: Credit Market Imperfections and Child Labor

Congdon Fors, Heather - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

We revisit the model of child labor in a peasant household presented in Bhalotra and Heady (2003), and demonstrate that the e¤ect of credit market imperfections on child labor di¤ers between households that save and households that borrow. This in turn is important for the interpretation of...

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