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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan; Sutter, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in the Swiss Army, and exploits random assignment to … prisoner's dilemma game with in-group as opposed to out-group members. They also use a costly punishment option to selectively … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes antisocial, harming cooperative …

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially

Meier, Stephan; Ariely, Dan; Bracha, Anat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper experimentally examines image motivation - the desire to be liked and wellregarded by others - as a driver in prosocial behavior (doing good), and asks whether extrinsic monetary incentives (doing well) have a detrimental effect on prosocial behavior due to crowding out of image...

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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime

Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

punishment norms failing to resolve these deficits. Our study suggests that a culture of organized crime can affect adolescent …

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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

hostility between groups. Our experiment provides the first evidence without the confounding effect of self-selection into … Army. We conduct choice experiments - simultaneous prisoner’s dilemma games, with and without third-party punishment - in … not lead to hostility, in the sense of vindictive punishment of outsiders, but does affect norm enforcement, enhancing …

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