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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games

Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009

Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...

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How does it feel to be part of the minority? : impacts of perspective taking on prosocial behavior

Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021

Venezuelans and improved some attitudes, but only the game significantly increased self-reported trust. …

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Meaningful talk

Streb, Jorge M.; Torrens, Gustavo - 2015

common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or …

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Social trust and electoral populism : explaining the quality of government

Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2019

those with free and fair elections, voters do the opposite. Low social trust can account for this paradox: voters must act … collectively to shape political incentives, but low trust among voters is an obstacle to collective action. If every voter believes … logic, low social trust prevents voters from sanctioning politicians who renege on their promises. Frequent reneging on …

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Does public investment contribute to increasing institutional and interpersonal trust? : place-based policies for sports and cultural activities in Cali, Colombia

Martínez, Lina María; Sayago, Juan Tomás - 2021

This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We … use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and … that measure trust. We nd that the organized sport policy improves institutional trust by about 4%. Our results are …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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Warm-glow giving in networks with multiple public goods

Richefort, Lionel - 2017

This paper explores a voluntary contribution game in the presence of warm-glow effects. There are many public goods and each public good benefits a different group of players. The structure of the game induces a bipartite network structure, where players are listed on one side and the public...

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The transmission of sustainable harvesting norms when agents are conditionally cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - 2013 - Draft version: 15 May 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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Environmental participation and environmental motivation

Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008

We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries...

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Decreasing incomes increase selfishness

Gagnon, Nickolas; Saulle, Riccardo D.; Zaunbrecher, … - 2021

We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...

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