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Conditional Cooperation in Students’ Stated Contributions to a Public Good

Meyer, Andrew - 2015

We analyze a survey of 559 students to investigate how information about peers affects individuals' stated … contributions to a specific pro-environment program — a student “green fee.” Compared to students that receive no information about … peer contributions, the students that receive information about the dollar value range of contributions at peer …

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“Do the right thing:” The effects of moral suasion on cooperation

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Dal Bó, Pedro - In: Journal of Public Economics 117 (2014) C, pp. 28-38

The use of moral appeals to affect the behavior of others is pervasive (from the pulpit to ethics classes) but little is known about the effects of moral suasion on behavior. In a series of experiments we study whether moral suasion affects behavior in voluntary contribution games and the...

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Conditioning on what? : heterogeneous contributions and conditional cooperation

Hartig, Björn; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Kölle, Felix - 2014

We experimentally investigate how different information about others' individual contributions affects conditional … cooperators' willingness to cooperate in a one-shot linear public goods game. We find that when information about individual … contributions is provided, contributions are generally higher than when only average information is available. This effect is …

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Cooperation in small groups : the effect of group size

Nosenzo, Daniele; Quercia, Simone; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2012-17, This version: 29 July 2013

We study the effect of group size on cooperation in voluntary contribution mechanism games. As in previous experiments, we study four- and eight-person groups in high and low marginal per capita return (MPCR) conditions. We find a positive effect of group size in the low MPCR condition, as in...

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Norm enforcement in social dilemmas : an experiment with police commissioners

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...

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Inequality and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis

Anderson, Lisa R.; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Milyo, Jeffrey - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2004

effectsÓ of group heterogeneity on cooperation. We test the hypothesis that inequality within a group reduces individual … participating in the experiment. When made salient through public information about each individualÕs standing within the group …

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 107-123

We investigate how burden sharing rules impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common...

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Heterogeneity and cooperation: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision

Kölle, Felix - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 109 (2015) C, pp. 120-134

We experimentally investigate the effects of two different sources of heterogeneity – capability and valuation – on the …

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Heterogeneity and cooperation in privileged groups : the role of capability and valuation on public goods provision

Kolle, Felix - 2012

heterogeneity with respect to two dimensions: capability and valuation. Our results reveal that with and without punishment … opportunities, heterogeneity crucially affects cooperation and coordination within groups. Compared to non-privileged groups … have on the other group members' payoffs affecting individuals' willingness to cooperate. Hence, whether heterogeneity …

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Isolating and identifying motivations: A voluntary contribution mechanism experiment with interior Nash equilibria

Kumakawa, Takehisa; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Yamato, Takehiko - School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of … - 2015

cooperative motivation when they know the other subject's payoff information. Altruistic motivation is found to be rare throughout …

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