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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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 Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

Beekman, Gonne; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...

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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

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Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment

Cheung, Stephen L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Andreoni and Sprenger (in press) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of their result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple price list is used instead of a convex...

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