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Conte, Anna; Levati, Vittoria; Montinari, Natalia - 2014

' experience and history in their experiments if they want to improve the external validity and replicability of their results. … whether behavior in public goods games is affected by experience (i.e., previous participation in social dilemma …-type experiments) and history (i.e., participation in experiments of a different class than the social dilemma). We have three main …

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Use of data on planned contributions and stated beliefs in the measurement of social preferences

Conte, Anna; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2011

In a series of one-shot linear public goods game, we ask subjects to report their contributions, their contribution plans for the next period, and their first-order beliefs about their present and future partner. We estimate subjects' preferences from plans data by a infinite mixture approach...

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Social preferences, beliefs, and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals' cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them as well as subjects' elicited beliefs to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly. We find...

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Social preferences, beliefs and the dynamics of free riding in public good experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2009

One lingering puzzle is why voluntary contributions to public goods decline over time in experimental and real-world settings. We show that the decline of cooperation is driven by individual preferences for imperfect conditional cooperation. Many people's desire to contribute less than others,...

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Voluntary contributions with risky and uncertain marginal returns: The importance of the minimal value

Levati, Maria Vittoria; Morone, Andrea - 2009

Previous research indicates that risky and uncertain marginal returns from the public good significantly lower contributions. This paper presents experimental results illustrating that the effects of risk and uncertainty depend on the employed parameterization. Speci?cally, if the value of the...

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The political economy of international environmental agreements: A survey

Wangler, Leo; Altamirano-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos; Weikard, … - 2011

This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...

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A sample selection model for protest votes in contingent valuation analyses

Calia, Pinuccia; Strazzera, Elisabetta - 1999

Respondents of contingent valuation surveys may place a null value on the public good, for reasons that differ from a genuine indifference to the good, but that can be interpreted as a "protest": either against the interview, or the public management, or both. A good survey design can...

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Modelling zero bids in contingent valuation surveys

Strazzera, Elisabetta; Scarpa, Riccardo; Calia, Pinuccia; … - 2000

When modelling data generated from a discrete choice contingent valuation question, the treatment of zero bids affects the welfare estimates. Zero bids may come from respondents who are not interested in the provision of the public good; alternatively, some zero-bidders may be protesting about...

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The effect of protest votes on the estimates of willingness to pay for use values of recreational sites

Strazzera, Elisabetta; Genius, Margarita; Scarpa, Riccardo - 2001

Selectivity bias caused by protest responses in Contingent Valuation studies can be detected and corrected by means of sample selection models. This paper compares two methods: the Heckman 2-steps method and the full ML, applied to data on forest recreation - where WTP is elicited as a...

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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment

Dannenberg, Astrid; Haita-Falah, Corina; Zitzelsberger, … - 2019

Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding members who show anti-social behaviors or attitudes. In this paper, we use a public goods experiment to study whether groups choose to implement an institution that allows for the...

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