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worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality … for individuals with below (above) average morality. Equilibrium public good provision is not increased by morality, as … long as there are homo oeconomicus individuals. An increase in morality of an individual may reduce total provision of the …
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The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...
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interaction based on forward-looking conditional cooperation within a standard linear public goods model. Among other things, I … motivated types in the population is rather small. -- Linear Public Goods Games ; Conditional Cooperation ; Ethical Behavior …
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cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition from all individuals being partner over blended … composition does not affect cooperation in the subsequent partner setting with one exception: Groups cooperate significantly less …
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This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group...
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temporary group member's effort but also the efforts of the permanent group members and, ultimately, also cooperation within the …
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-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …
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can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …
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cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit …
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