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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …

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Reciprocity and Payment Schemes: When Equality Is Unfair

Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A growing literature stresses the importance of reciprocity, especially for employment relations. In this paper, we … study the interaction of different payment modes with reciprocity. In particular, we analyze how equal wages affect … rather driven by the fact that reciprocity is violated far more frequently in the equal wage treatment. Agents suffering from …

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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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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation

Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can …

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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams

Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

desert, so desert guilt generates behavior consistent with both positive and negative reciprocity and may underpin social …

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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes

Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish and fair or altruistic types a third type of agents is introduced: These ‘conformists' have social preferences if they believe that sufficiently many of the others do too. When...

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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...

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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation

Thöni, Christian; Gächter, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Substantial evidence suggests the behavioral relevance of social preferences and also the importance of social influence effects ("peer effects"). Yet, little is known about how peer effects and social preferences are related. In a three-person gift-exchange experiment we find causal evidence...

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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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