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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
We study the dynamics of the private provision of a public good that requires both capacity buildup and ongoing operating costs. We show that setting a time limit for the collection of contributions dedicated to capacity buildup minimizes the utility loss at the Nash equilibrium. We test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959541
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one on the most religious day during Ramadan (the Night of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369116
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Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative externality a group's performance imposes on other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011899
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Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703051
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739419
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592862
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703180
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703287
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822726
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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822784