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Maintaining efficiency while integrating entrants from lower-performing environments: An experimental study

Salmon, Timothy C.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2011

Efficient growth often requires the integration of individuals from lower-performing groups, firms, or societies into higher-performing ones. Such integration may be difficult without facilitating interventions or restrictions. We explore, using a laboratory experiment, the effectiveness of two...

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Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision

D'Adda, Giovanna - 2011

This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...

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The information method: Theory and application

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik - 2007

When estimating the extent of e.g. excess use of public benefits one traditionally uses direct monitoring. Such direct estimates are afflicted with an intrinsic negative bias since you only count what you find. This paper presents and assesses an alternative intuitive, yet relatively unexplored,...

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Excess use of temporary parental benefit

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Persson, Malin - 2007

In this report we examine the excess use of Temporary Parental Benefit for parents who need to stay home from work when their children are sick. This study is based on a randomized experiment that took place during the spring 2006. The method used is rather new and more ambitious than those used...

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Doing good or doing well? Image motivation and monetary incentives in behaving prosocially

Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat; Meier, Stephan - 2007

This paper experimentally examines image motivation the desire to be liked and well-regarded by others as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...

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The focusing and informational effects of norms on pro-social behavior

Krupka, Erin; Weber, Roberto A. - 2007

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions …

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Do the reciprocal trust less?

Altmann, Steffen; Dohmen, Thomas; Wibral, Matthias - 2007

We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that fairer players should trust less.

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Eliciting motives for trust and reciprocity by attitudinal and behavioural measures

Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2008

Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents' declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital - trust and...

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Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams: theory and evidence

Mohnen, Alwine; Pokorny, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2008

We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...

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Blood donations and incentives: evidence from a field experiment

Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois - 2008

blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood … types of incentive: a lottery ticket and a free cholesterol test. Lottery tickets significantly increase donations, in … particular among less motivated donors. The cholesterol test leads to no discernable impact on usable blood donations. If …

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