Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 331
Cover Image
The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369116
Cover Image
Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886142
Cover Image
New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018193
Cover Image
Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the theoretical model empirically by conducting contribution game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959541
Cover Image
Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678697
Cover Image
Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128038
Cover Image
The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182
Cover Image
Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884260
Cover Image
Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
heterogeneous groups. When punishment is not allowed all groups converge towards free-riding. With punishment, contributions … that these differences are not accidental but enforced by punishment. The enforced contribution norms are related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002828
Cover Image
Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles N.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to … their actual punishment level. We find that threats increase the level of contributions significantly. Efficiency is … punishment leads to lower threats, cooperation and welfare, restoring them to levels equal to or below the levels attained in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678693