's key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out – transparency negatively … affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

experiment based on a game in the first stage of which subjects can voluntarily contribute to the funding of a collective good …

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of … method integrating interactive experiments and representative surveys thereby overcoming crucial weaknesses of both … approaches. One of the major advantages of our approach is that it allows for the integration of experiments, which require …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …

experiments with religious Jewish students for the procurement of sustainable supplies for their campus synagogues and ongoing … operations. The empirical findings support the model's prediction and demonstrate that the theory fairly describes the pattern of …

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …