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Gun For Hire : Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James - 2011
This paper compares two methods to encourage socially optimal provision of a public good. We compare the efficacy of vigilante justice, as represented by peer-to-peer punishment, to delegated policing, as represented by the "hired gun" mechanism, to deter free riding and improve group welfare....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461626
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Pivotal or Popular : The Effects of Social Information and Feeling Pivotal on Civic Actions
Gee, Laura K.; Kiyawat, Anoushka; Meer, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
laboratory experiment to cleanly fix beliefs about the person's likelihood of being pivotal in reaching a donation threshold that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247963
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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Berman, Eli - 2008
We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464041
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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism
Berman, Eli - 2000
intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …. Selection on altruism can explain why historically immigrant-absorbing countries like the U.S. have higher fertility than other …. Selection on altruism also implies that immigrant-absorbing regions will grow faster, or have higher per capita income, or both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471230
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2008
Can rational choice modeling explain why Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah and other radical religious rebels are so lethal? The literature rejects theological explanations. We propose a club framework, which emphasizes the function of voluntary religious organizations as efficient providers of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464922
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The Hired Gun Mechanism
Andreoni, James - 2011
We present and experimentally test a mechanism that provides a simple, natural, low cost, and realistic solution to the problem of compliance with socially determined efficient actions, such as contributing to a public good. We note that small self-governing organizations often place enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461627