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When to Favour Your Own group? The Threats of Costly Punishments and In-group Favouritism

Harris, Donna; Herrmann, Benedikt - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Using a laboratory experiment with minimal groups, we examined the extent to which the threats of costly punishments …

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Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

run an experiment in which: `private citizens` have to decide whether and how much to offer `public servants` in exchange …

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The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Using a simple one-shot bribery game, we find evidence of a negative externality effect and a framing effect. When the losses suffered by third parties due to a bribe being offered and accepted are high and the game is presented as a petty corruption scenario instead of in abstract terms...

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Envy and Agricultural Innovation: An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket; Zizzo, Daniel John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

The underlying motivations for envy or related social preferences and their impact on agricultural innovations are examined by combining data from money burning experimental game and household survey from Ethiopia. In the first stage of the money burning experimental game, income inequality is...

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Externality and framing effects in a bribery experiment

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

likely to be offered and accepted. We discuss two possible reasons as to why our experiment leads to the identification of …

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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel; Deininger, Klaus; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in …

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Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Collier, Paul; Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence. We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on …

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Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks

Barr, Abigail; Attanasio, Orazio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

Using data from a field experiment conducted in seventy Colombian municipalities, we investigate who pools risk with …

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Risk Sharing, Commitment and Information: An experimental analysis

Barr, Abigail; Genicot, Garance - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper describes and analyzes the results of a unique field experiment especially designed to test the effects of … the groups formed within our experiment with the real life risk sharing networks in a few villages allows us to test the … external validity of our experiment and suggests that the results are salient to our understanding of risk sharing arrangements …

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Rational and Biased Trust

Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...

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