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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 … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is substantial spiteful punishment of high …

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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

We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are "types" of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …

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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games

Gächter, Simon; Mengel, Friederike; Tsakas, Elias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

public good experiments, we find that contributions are increasing over time even in the absence of punishment possibilities … repeated public good games regarding the decay of cooperation in the absence of punishment. …

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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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Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis

Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...

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Individual-Level Loss Aversion in Riskless and Risky Choices

Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …

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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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