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The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
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purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …
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altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one … punishment among individuals during Ramadan, even when the degree of their religiosity varied. However, less religious people did …
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willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group …
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-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …
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interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …
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We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …
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This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in … public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or punishment profiles using the strategy … contribute more unequally. Contingent punishment strategies are found to increase with decreasing contributions by the target …
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the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the theoretical model empirically by conducting contribution game …
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