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The individual-team discontinuity effect on institutional choices : experimental evidence in voluntary public goods provision

Kamei, Kenju; Tabero, Katy - 2022

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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?

Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009

A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....

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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Is altruism bad for cooperation?

Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - 2008

embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional altruism towards other members attenuates the punishment … contributions. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of contribution costs and … punishment costs. The negative effect of altruism on cooperation and material payoffs is greater the stronger is the reciprocity …

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Cooperation under democracy and authoritarian norms

Vollan, Björn; Zhou, Yexin; Landmann, Andreas; Hu, Biliang - 2013

There is ample evidence for a "democracy premium". Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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An Experimental Test of the Public Goods Crowing Out Hypothesis when Taxation Is Endogenous

Sutter, Matthias; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 1, pp. 94-94

Andreoni (1993) has shown in an experimental study that crowding out is incomplete when an involuntary lump-sum tax is levied exogenously on individuals to finance the provision of a public good. In this paper, we (i) replicate Andreoni's experimental conditions, and (ii) introduce treatments...

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Strategic experimentation : the case of poisson bandits

Cripps, Martin; Keller, Godfrey; Rady, Sven - 2002

This paper studies a game of strategic experimentation in which the players have access to two-armed bandits where the risky arm distributes lumpsum payoffs according to a Poisson process with unknown intensity. Because of free-riding, there is an inefficiently low level of experimentation in...

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What makes law to change behavior? : an experimental study

Romaniuc, Rustam - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 12 (2016) 2, pp. 447-475

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The effect of voting on contributions in a public goods game

Sage, Sander le; Heijden, Eline C. van der - 2015

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