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Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children
Cipriani, Marco; Giuliano, Paola; Jeanne, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper studies whether prosocial values are transmitted from parents to their children. We do so through an economic experiment, in which a group of Hispanic and African American families play a standard public goods game. The experimental data presents us with a surprising result. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700882
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822657
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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 method. It is found that the selfish bias in conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018193
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Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation
Reuben, Ernesto; Suetens, Sigrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use a novel experimental design to disentangle strategically- and non-strategically-motivated cooperation. By using contingent responses in a repeated sequential prisoners' dilemma with a known probabilistic end, we differentiate end-game behavior from continuation behavior within individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011909
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Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence
Burks, Stephen; Carpenter, Jeffrey; Goette, Lorenz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703260
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703792
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Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea; Danz, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge … beliefs as well as for the accuracy of their beliefs (relative to the opponent’s true choice). In the baseline treatment we … observe more sophisticated play as well as more accurate beliefs and more best responses to beliefs over time. We isolate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822932
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024584
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Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik; Rosholm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225763
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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