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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion

Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the source of uncertainty by sacrificing towards it. In our … uncertainty is lower. The findings imply that under circumstances of high uncertainty people are willing to sacrifice large …

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Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in...

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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

In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting growth and inequality arise endogenously allowing us to address new questions regarding their...

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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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