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Identity and cooperation in multicultural societies

Montinari, Natalia; Ploner, Matteo; Rattini, Veronica - 2026

This paper studies whether alternative integration-policy framings affect cooperation in ethnically diverse groups. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment with 390 adolescents in mixed classrooms in Italy. Within each class, students were randomly assigned to small groups that received either...

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Identity and cooperation in multicultural societies

Montinari, Natalia; Ploner, Matteo; Rattini, Veronica - 2026

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Elections and political polarisation : challenges for environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah - 2026 - This version: May 2026

This paper examines how domestic elections and political polarisation shape international environmental agreements. Using a four-stage game to model a bilateral treaty, I analyse how incumbents strategically balance policy preferences with re-election prospects. Results reveal asymmetric...

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Elections and political polarisation: Challenges for environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah - 2024

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Elections and political polarisation : challenges for environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah - 2024 - This version: November 2024

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The politics of public goods provision under asymmetric decentralization

Lago, Ignacio; Blais, André - 2026

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Solving dilemma games with evolving conditional commitments

Oechssler, Joerg - 2026

I study a formal mechanism that can sustain Pareto optimality in a new and very broad class of dilemma games. In the absence of a central authority that could enforce multilateral agreements, the mechanism is based on binding unilateral commitments, which condition a playerís (possibly...

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Optimal taxation under imperfect trust

Ablyatifov, Emin; Lukyanov, Georgy - 2026

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The Easterlin paradox at 50

Oparina, Ekaterina; Clark, Andrew E.; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2026

We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries from 2009-2019 at both the individual and country levels to revisit the relationship between income and subjective wellbeing. Our inspiration is the paradox first proposed by Easterlin (1974), according to which higher incomes are associated...

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The Easterlin paradox at 50

Oparina, Ekaterina; Clark, Andrew E.; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2024

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Private interest in the public good : cholera and the origins of sanitary reform

Gallardo-Albarrán, Daniel; Kappner, Kalle - 2026 - This version: May 19, 2026

European countries paved the way for modern economic growth in the 19th century with large-scale reforms facilitating human capital accumulation. The literature has looked at the role of elites in broad education investments, but less attention has been devoted to reforms promoting workers'...

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Policy insights from outgroup social comparisons

Kent, Danielle - 2026

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Long-term and multi-generational impacts of skilled birth attendance

Sun, Meiping Aggie; Yang, Yiying - 2026

This paper examines the long-term and multi-generational benefits of skilled birth attendance (SBA), which involves having a trained midwife or doctor present at delivery to safely perform normal deliveries using aseptic techniques and provide first-line emergency obstetric care. Using data on...

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Institutional rules and biased rule enforcement

Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2025

This study investigates how institutional rules and fairness in enforcement affect cooperation and compliance in heterogenous groups. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1, 254), we vary both the existence of a rule governing contributions to a public good as well as whether enforcement of...

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Dynamic volunteer's dilemma with procrastinators

Shi, Yixuan - 2025

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Dynamic Volunteer's Dilemma With Procrastinators

Shi, Yixuan - 2025

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Efficiency of the minimum approval mechanism with heterogeneous players

Bayle, Gabriel; Willinger, Marc - 2025

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Efficiency of the minimum approval mechanism with heterogeneous players

Bayle, Gabriel; Willinger, Marc - 2025

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Normative acceptance of power abuse

Hoeft, Leonard; Mill, Wladislaw; Vostroknutov, Alexander - 2025

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Weight-ranked divide-and-conquer contracts

Cha, Lester T. - 2025

This paper studies a large class of multi-agent contracting models with the property that agents' payoffs constitute a weighted potential game. Multiple equilibria arise due to agents' strategic interactions. I fully characterize a contracting scheme that is optimal for the principal for all...

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Taxation, compliance, and clandestine activities

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2025

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Taxation, compliance, and clandestine activities

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2025

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New categories of conditional contribution strategies in the public goods game

Schäffer, Klaudia; Král, Adrienn; Kun, Ádám - 2025

Human cooperation is ubiquitous and instinctive. We are among the most cooperative species on Earth. Still, research mostly focuses on why we cooperate, instead of understanding why some of us do not do so. The public goods game can be used to map human cooperation as well as to study free...

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Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias

Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2025

Media content is an important privately supplied public good. While it has been shown that contributions to a public good crowd out other contributions in many cases, the issue has not been thoroughly studied for media markets yet. We show that in a standard model of commercial media bias,...

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Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias

Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2023

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Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias

Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2023

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Animal welfare ballot initiatives and the vote-buy gap

Vukina, Tomislav; Oh, Sohae Eve; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2025

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On the public and voluntary provision of public goods

Moreno-García, Emma; Torregrosa, Ramόn J. - 2025

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Coalitions improve the coordination and provision of public goods : theory and experimental evidence

Ball, Sheryl; Sarangi, Sudipta; Upadhyay, Sakshi - 2025

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Facing inflated rules : experimental evidence from threshold public goods games

Grund, Christian; Monschau, Philipp - 2025

We study the role of purpose-based rules for behavior and outcomes in a threshold public good game. Rules can be sufficient or even inflated in terms of proposing a fulfilling behavior. We conduct a lab experiment to describe the implications caused by the inflation of a rule. Our study shows...

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Going beyond suffering in public goods games when low contributions are inefficient : experimenting with two institutions

Di Cagno, Daniela; Güth, Werner; Marazzi, Francesca; … - 2025

We analyze a public goods game with linearly increasing marginal returns to contributions, leading to a non-monotonic group payoff. By allowing the incentive to freeride to persist at all contribution levels, we preserve the usual social dilemma of voluntary public goods provision. We compare...

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Taxation, political engagement, and public goods provision in Colombia's conflict-affected regions

Pantoja-Barrios, Sebastián - 2025

Citizens in Colombia's conflict-affected regions protest to demand public goods provision while simultaneously producing public goods independently. This is surprising, as both actions are carried out by poor populations and are frequently repressed by violence. What explains when citizens make...

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Taxation, political engagement, and public goods provision in Colombia's conflict-affected regions

Pantoja-Barrios, Sebastián - 2025

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Self-enforcing stable sets

Sakamoto, Hiroaki; Traeger, Christian - 2025 - Version of December 2025

We study coalition formation with externalities under voluntary, non-binding participation. Motivated by climate agreements, where standard modeling predicts small, inefficient coalitions, we propose a new solution concept - the self-enforcing stable set. It synthesizes the self-enforcing logic...

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The burden of excellence : endogenous efficiency paradoxes under coopetition

Hattori, Keisuke; Yoshikawa, Takeshi - 2025

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Vertical industrial policy : principles, practice and potential

Grafström, Jonas - 2025

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On the extraction of common-pool resources : impacts of population, amenity values and income inequality

Uusivuori, Jussi; Rämö, Janne; Kuusela, Olli-Pekka - 2025

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Who should own the past?

Halonen, Maija; Pafilis, Evagelos - 2025

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Who should own the past?

Halonen, Maija; Pafilis, Evagelos - 2025

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Are poor people conditionally cooperative? : contrasting evidence from a field-adapted contributions game

Allen, James E.; Karachiwalla, Naureen; Rakshit, Deboleena - 2025

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Turnover, morale, and performance in bureaucracies : evidence from Indonesian villages

Bazzi, Samuel; Hilmy, Masyhur; Marx, Benjamin M.; … - 2024 - Preliminary draft: May 2024

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How do voters respond to welfare vis-à-vis public good programs? : theory and evidence of political clientelism

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2024

Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...

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Homo oeconomicus as the homo moralis' party pooper : heterogenous morality in public good games

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2024

The main insight of this paper is that moral behavior does not necessarily alleviate coordination problems or may even worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality preferences in a canonical model of voluntary...

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Firms' willingness to pay local business tax : the impact of trust and public goods

Giese, Henning; Heinemann-Heile, Vanessa - 2024

This study analyzes whether and to what extent the provision of public goods and firms' trust in local governments' handling of local business tax revenues are associated with firms' willingness to pay local business tax. Using survey data on German small- and medium-sized firms, we find that...

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Fear and dreams: understanding the non-institutional sources of leader strategy

Bautista, María Angélica; Galán Guerrero, Juan Sebastián - 2024

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Fear and Dreams : Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy

Bautista, María Angélica; Galán Guerrero, Juan Sebastián - 2024

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Fear and dreams : understanding the non-institutional sources of leader strategy

Bautista, María Angélica; Galán Guerrero, Juan Sebastián - 2024

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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood

Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024

This paper examines the long-term impacts of growth and development monitoring in early childhood. For this purpose, we evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development monitoring through routine health checkups for all...

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Optimal sequential contests

Hinnosaar, Toomas - 2024

I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, including rent seeking, R&D, oligopoly, public goods provision, and tragedy of the commons. I show that information about other players'...

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Optimal sequential contests

Hinnosaar, Toomas - 2024

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Optimal sequential contests

Hinnosaar, Toomas - 2021

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Using life satisfaction and happiness data for environmental valuation : an experienced preference approach

Ferreira, Susana; Moro, Mirko; Welsch, Heinz - 2024

A growing literature in economics uses subjective well-being data collected in surveys as a proxy for utility. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non-market valuation approach: the experienced preference approach. In...

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Volatility and resilience of democratic public-good provision

Gersbach, Hans; Pitsuwan, Fikri; Valvassori Bolgè, Giovanni - 2024

We examine democratic public-good provision with heterogeneous legislators. Decisions are taken by majority rule and an agenda-setter proposes a level of the public good, taxes, and subsidies. Members are heterogeneous with respect to their benefits from the public good. We find that, depending...

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Backup power : public implications of private substitutes for electric grid reliability

Brehm, Paul A.; Johnston, Sarah; Milton, Ross - 2024

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The political economy of bread and circuses : weather shocks and classic Maya monument construction

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa; Isendahl, Christian; Olsson, Ola - 2024

In early states, government elites provided both productivity-enhancing infrastructure, such as irrigation systems, as well as seemingly non-productive monumental architecture like temples and pyramids. The nature of this "bread-and-circuses"-tradeoff is not well understood. In this paper, we...

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The political economy of bread and circuses : weather shocks and classic Maya monument construction

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa; Isendahl, Christian; Olsson, Ola - 2024

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The political economy of bread and circuses : weather shocks and classic Maya monument construction

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa; Isendahl, Christian; Olsson, Ola - 2024

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The road to ruin : parasitic suburbs and the fundamental law of traffic congestion

Farnham, Martin; Gugl, Elisabeth; Kennedy, Peter W.; … - 2024

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Tax morale, public goods, and politics : experimental evidence from Mozambique : partnering with a city government in Mozambique, we assess whether information highlighting 1) public good provision and 2) local political autonomy increases tax morale and political support

Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2024

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The unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Bancalari, Antonella - 2024

I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure. Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, when the government embarked on a nationwide initiative to expand sewerage systems, I leverage quasi-random variation in initiation of the implementation...

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The unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Bancalari, Antonella - 2024

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Civic engagement as a constraint on corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2025

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Civic engagement as a constraint on corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2024

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Civic engagement as a constraint on corruption

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G.; Tabero, Katy; Tyran, … - 2024

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Group incentives for the public good : a field experiment on improving the urban environment

Newman, Carol; Mitchell, Tara; Holmlund, Marcus; … - 2024

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Group incentives for the public good : a field experiment on improving the urban environment

Newman, Carol; Mitchell, Tara; Holmlund, Marcus; … - 2019

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Group incentives for the public good : a field experiment on improving the urban environment

Newman, Carol; Mitchell, Tara; Holmlund, Marcus; … - 2019

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Group Incentives for the Public Good : A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment

Newman, Carol; Mitchell, Tara; Holmlund, Marcus E; … - 2022

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Group Incentives for the Public Good : A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment

Newman, Carol; Mitchell, Tara; Holmlund, Marcus E; … - 2022

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Group Incentives for the Public Good : A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment

Newman, Carol - 2019

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The fiscal contract up close : experimental evidence from Mexico City

Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - 2024

Can the provision of public goods strengthen the fiscal capacity of governments in developing countries and move them toward an equilibrium of widespread tax compliance? We present evidence of the impact of local public infrastructure on tax compliance, leveraging a large public investment...

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The fiscal contract up close: experimental evidence from Mexico City

Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - 2024

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The Fiscal Contract up Close : Experimental Evidence from Mexico City

Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - 2024

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The fiscal contract up close : experimental evidence from Mexico City

Brockmeyer, Anne; Garfias, Francisco; Suárez Serrato, … - 2024

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Innovative contract solutions for the Agri-Environmental-Climate Public Goods provision : which features meet the farmers' approval? : insights from Emilia-Romagna (Italy)

D'Alberto, Riccardo; Raggi, Meri; Viaggi, Davide - 2024

The agroecological transition promoted worldwide is supported by the European Union Common Agricultural Policy towards different strategies and policy tools. The agri-environmental schemes, offering farmers the possibility to adopt environment-friendly practices (thus mitigating negative...

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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2025

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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024

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Elections and rural road construction : evidence from India

Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy - 2024

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