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A Nationwide Laboratory Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioural Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Schupp, Jürgen; von … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly …

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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We analyse an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...

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Fiscal Policy with Agents Differing in Altruism and in Ability

Michel, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

social security system and inheritance taxation) in an overlapping generations model with perfect altruism. It generalizes … productivity and altruism. Within such a model wealth is entirely held in the steady-state by the families with the highest degree … of altruism. Under plausible assumptions both public debt and social security are neutral à la Ricardo, while increasing …

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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks

De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and …

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Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity - Evidence and Economic Applications

Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...

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Should Egalitarians Expropriate Philanthropists?

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....

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Public goods, participation constraints, and democracy: A possibility theorem

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

It is well known that ex post efficient mechanisms for the provision of indivisible public goods are not interim individually rational. However, the corresponding literature assumes that agents who veto a mechanism can enforce a situation in which the public good is never provided. This paper...

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Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper proposes a dynamic politico-economic theory of fiscal policy in a world comprising a set of small open economies, whose driving force is the intergenerational conflict over debt, taxes, and public goods. Subsequent generations of voters choose fiscal policy through repeated elections....

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The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe

Greif, Avner; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Over the last millennium, the clan and the city have been the locus of cooperation in China and Europe respectively. This paper examines - analytically, historically, and empirically - the cultural, social, and institutional co-evolution that led to this bifurcation. We highlight that groups...

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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

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