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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754117
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How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550522
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Options to Quit
Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker’s decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model’s closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703565
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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822299
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822636
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Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money
Deutsch, Joseph; Epstein, Gil S.; Nir, Alon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model and analyze two sets of naturally occurring data from crowd-funding platforms. After developing the...
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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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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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323389
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Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation
Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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