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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
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The strategy method risks conflating confusion with a social preference for conditional cooperation in public goods games
Burton-Chellew, Maxwell N.; D'Amico, Victoire; Guérin, … - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-10
The strategy method is often used in public goods games to measure an individual's willingness to cooperate depending on the level of cooperation by their groupmates (conditional cooperation). However, while the strategy method is informative, it risks conflating confusion with a desire for fair...
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Explaining cooperative behavior in public goods games : how preferences and beliefs affect contribution levels
Ackermann, Kurt A.; Murphy, Ryan O. - In: Games 10 (2019) 1/15, pp. 1-34
individual level using multiple methods, and at multiple times during the experiment. With this rich set of predictor variables …
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Do economists punish less?
Kaiser, Jonas Pilgaard; Pedersen, Kasper Selmar; Koch, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/75, pp. 1-17
whether to engage in costly punishment of a free rider in a survey-based experiment with 1423 students from seven study areas …
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Introduction to the special issue "pro-sociality and cooperation"
Ghidoni, Riccardo - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-2
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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337527
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
-Economic Panel Study, which contains data on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity for more than 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672030
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Reciprocity in dynamic employment relationships
Fahn, Matthias - 2020
This paper analyzes a dynamic relational contract for employees with reciprocal preferences. I develop a tractable model to investigate how “direct” performance-pay (promising a bonus in exchange for effort) and generous upfront wages (which activate the norm of reciprocity) interact over...
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Giving to versus taking from in- and out-group members
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo; Schlüter, Achim; Nelson, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/57, pp. 1-14
In this experiment, we test whether subjects’ responses to variations in the action set in a dictator game depends on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891039
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Why people obey the law : experimental evidence from the provision of public goods
Feld, Lars P.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2002
According to economists, severe legal sanctions deter violations of the law. According to legal scholars, people may obey law backed by mild sanctions because of norm-activation. We experimentally investigate the effects of mild and severe legal sanctions in the provision of public goods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408944