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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
operations. The empirical findings support the model's prediction and demonstrate that the theory fairly describes the pattern of …
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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An Economic Model of Child Custody
Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703298
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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kübler, Dorothea; Dwenger, Nadja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822191
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Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?
Blázquez, Maite; Jansen, Marcel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822529
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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128040
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Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
spousal matching into a household labor supply model in which (a) couples engage in home production, (b) there are potential …, matching in asymmetric marriage markets induces spousal cooperation and specialization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762001