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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
III, John J. Donohue; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061
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Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
willingness of some team members to engage in the costly punishment of shirkers. This alternative does not require small group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703699
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-effort experiment based on this model. Consistent with a behavioral approach to public finance, we find that tournament workers are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886142
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822702
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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 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763774
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Voluntary Contributions to the Establishment and Operation of Public Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the theoretical model empirically by conducting contribution game …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959541
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Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is surprisingly thin, however. In this paper, we … report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822220
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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128038
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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Villeval, Marie Claire; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
experiment based on a game in the first stage of which subjects can voluntarily contribute to the funding of a collective good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762105
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884182