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Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - In: Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014) C, pp. 12-25

This paper investigates in a principal–agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Testing deontological warm glow motivation for carbon abatements

Braaten, Ragnhild Haugli - In: Resource and Energy Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 96-109

Do people contribute to CO2 abatements even when these contributions are completely crowded out by a third party? This study reports from an experimental test of contributions to carbon abatements when the contributions are completely crowded out by the experimenter. Contributions are determined...

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Strength of the Social Dilemma in a Public Goods Experiment: An Exploration of the Error Hypothesis

Willinger, Marc; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - In: Experimental Economics 4 (2001) 2, pp. 131-144

We present the results of an experiment on voluntary contributions to a public good with a unique dominant strategy … which combines altruism and decision errors fits quite well our laboratory data. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 …

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Public Goods Games, Altruism, and Evolution

Alger, Ingela - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2009

altruistic individual is better off materially. Between pairs, individuals in the pair with the highest degree of altruism are … better off materially. I determine the evolutionarily stable degree of altruism, allowing for assortative matching. The … stable degree of altruism is strictly smaller than the degree of assortativity, and it may be negative. It is also increasing …

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'Altruistic' and 'Antisocial' Punishers are One and the Same

Eriksson, Kimmo; Cownden, Daniel; Ehn, Micael; … - In: Review of Behavioral Economics 1 (2014) 3, pp. 209-221

unrelated to altruism. First, individual use of punishment was uncorrelated with contribution to the public good, contrary to …

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Is altruism bad for cooperation?

Hwang, Sung-Ha; Bowles, Samuel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 83 (2012) 3, pp. 330-341

cooperation may be less than additive. Using a utility function embodying both reciprocity and altruism we show that unconditional … altruism attenuates the punishment motive and thus may reduce the level of punishment inflicted on defectors, resulting in … lower levels of contribution. Increases in altruism may also reduce the level of benefits from the public project net of …

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Gender and cooperative behavior: economic man rides alone

Seguino, Stephanie; Stevens, Thomas; Lutz, Mark - In: Feminist Economics 2 (1996) 1, pp. 1-21

Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth...

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What norms trigger punishment?

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter - In: Experimental Economics 12 (2009) 3, pp. 272-288

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Gender and competition in adolescence: task matters

Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - In: Experimental Economics 17 (2014) 1, pp. 154-172

We look at gender differences among adolescents in Sweden in preferences for competition, altruism and risk. For …

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Gender and generosity: does degree of anonymity or group gender composition matter?

Cadsby, C.; Servátka, Maroš; Song, Fei - In: Experimental Economics 13 (2010) 3, pp. 299-308

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