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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … predicted contributions, because they contribute in the first half of the experiment. We also show that the interaction of …

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Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

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The Limits of Self-Governance in the Presence of Spite: Experimental Evidence from Urban and Rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge urban-rural gap. In contrast to previous experiments we find no …

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The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance

Gächter, Simon; Kessler, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

voluntary cooperation. Further experiments show that this result is robust to two important variables: experiencing Trust …

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Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

help of a survey and also observe actual agreements in a bargaining experiment with real money at stake. We find that the …

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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …

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