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, and that intrinsic reciprocity is rewarded. In fact, the total level of cooperation, in which trust is reciprocated, is … experimentally investigate the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental reciprocity by running a two-period repeated trust … do not know and hence the second period comes as a surprise. We find that subjects anticipate instrumental reciprocity …
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In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....
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To investigate the external validity of laboratory results, we combine a public good experiment with three treatments … in a field experiment. One treatment offers the opportunity to free-ride, the other two are placebo treatments. We …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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among high-school students and intertemporal choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who …
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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...
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Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper …
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We study reputational herding in financial markets in a laboratory experiment. In the spirit of Dasgupta and Prat (2008 …
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We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As … predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels … of cooperation. This means that there is evidence for an impulse to be selfish and that cooperative behavior requires …
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