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Economic cooperation In Turkish culture: Public goods games and lonely elephants

Beranek, Benjamin; Duman, Alper - 2010

While the public good experiment has been used to analyze cooperation among various groups in Western Europe and North … altruistic punishment, to antisocial punishment, and ultimately to enhanced cooperation in Turkish society. …

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Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies

Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than …

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Bridging the Great Divide in South Africa: Inequality and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

find that aggregate cooperation is higher in both the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) and punishment treatments for …

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Cost Benefit Rules when Nature Counts

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

This paper analyses normative implications of relaxing the conventional welfare economics assumptions anthropocentrism and welfarism, i.e. that only human well-being counts intrinsically, combined with various types of non-selfish individual preferences. Social decision rules are derived for the...

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Financing public education when altruistic agents have retirement concerns

Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona; … - 2011

Human capital and, therefore, education have an impact on the societys future welfare. In this paper we study the connection between the voters support to public education and the retirement concerns. We show that voters anticipate the positive effect of education on future pensions. The support...

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Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India

Ahmed, Ali M. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of...

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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution

Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as well as the importance … of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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Intergovernmental grants and fiscal competition

Jakobsson, Niklas; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This theoretical paper shows how a central government can induce a policy concerning a municipal matter through a package of a policy requirement and a grant. We find that, due to fiscal competition and the possibility for citizens to move between municipalities, the central government can make...

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Child-care quality and fee structure: Effects on labor supply and leisure composition

Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

This paper studies the effects of public child-care subsidies on parental time allocation. We develop a model where parents are allowed to utilize subsidized care during both working and leisure hours. The model distinguishes between subsidies to child-care quality and to fees. Three types of...

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