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Peer effects in pro-social behaviour: Social norms or social preferences?

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012

experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …

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Peer effects in pro-social behavior: Social norms or social preferences?

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012

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Other-regarding Preferences, Group Identity and Political Participation: An Experiment

Robalo, Pedro; Schram, Arthur; Sonnemans, Joep - 2013

We experimentally study the relationship between other-regarding preferences, group identity and political … participation. In doing so, we propose a novel group identity induction procedure that succeeds in creating environments where in … differences between environments where group identity is high and low. This suggests that the higher participation observed in …

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How do informal agreements and renegotiation shape contractual reference points?

Fehr, Ernst; Hart, Oliver; Zehnder, Christian - 2011

Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and expost renegotiation....

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People are conditional rule followers

Desmet, Pieter; Engel, Christoph - 2017

Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more of their peers do so as well. The difference between unconditional and conditional rule following is most pronounced for individuals who follow few rules unconditionally.

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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries-Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420268

Give everybody a voice! The power of voting in a public goods experiment with externalities

Engel, Christoph; Rockenbach, Bettina - 2014

We study the effect of voting when insiders´ public goods provision may affect passive outsiders. Without voting insiders´ contributions do not differ, regardless of whether outsiders are positively or negatively affected or even unaffected. Voting on the recommended contribution level...

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Individual characteristics and behavior in repeated games: An experimental study

Davis, Douglas; Ivanov, Asen; Korenok, Oleg - 2014

Using a laboratory experiment, we investigate whether a variety of behaviors in repeated games are related to an array …

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