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Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
Vesterlund, Lise; Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Xie, Huan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The extant experimental design to investigate warm glow and altruism elicits a single measure of crowd-out. Not recognizing that impure altruism predicts crowd-out is a function of giving-by-others, this design's power to reject pure altruism varies with the level of giving-by-others, and it...
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Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data
list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Laboratory experiments have been used extensively in economics in the past several decades to lend both positive and … grown in prominence of late--field experiments. I argue that field experiments serve as a useful bridge between data … field experiments can yield important insights into economic theory and provide useful guidance to policymakers. I also draw …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084551
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On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods - Experimental Evidence from the Lab
Lange, Andreas; Dannenberg, Astrid; Sturm, Bodo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The provision of public goods often relies on voluntary contributions and cooperation. While most of the experimental literature focuses on individual contributions, many real-world problems involve the formation of institutions among subgroups (coalitions) of players. International agreements...
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Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
Kolstad, Charles D.; Burger, Nicholas E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The literature on voluntary provision of public goods includes recent theoretical work on the formation of voluntary coalitions to provide public goods. Theory is ambiguous on the equilibrium coalition size and contribution rates. We examine the emergence of coalitions, their size, and how...
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The Hired Gun Mechanism
Andreoni, James; Gee, Laura K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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/10009019669
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Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
Andreoni, James; Gee, Laura K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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....
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Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision
Shogren, Jason; list, john; Spencer, Michael A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper considers how six alternative rebate rules affect voluntary contributions in a threshold public … to the existing experimental economics literature on threshold public goods by investigating both aggregate and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005723108
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The Political Coase Theorem: Experimental Evidence
Galiani, Sebastian; Torrens, Gustavo; Yanguas, Maria Lucia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The Political Coase Theorem (PCT) states that, in the absence of transaction costs, agents should agree to implement efficient policies regardless of the distribution of bargaining power among them. This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore how commitment problems undermine the validity...
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Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study
Agranov, Marina; Palfrey, Thomas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
by candidate competition. Fourth, we observe negligible deviations from labor supply behavior or voting behavior in the …
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Collective Action: Experimental Evidence
Anauati, María Victoria; Feld, Brian; Galiani, Sebastian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We conducted a laboratory experiment to test the comparative statics predictions of a new approach to collective action games based on the method of stability sets. We find robust support for the main theoretical predictions. As we increase the payoff of a successful collective action (accruing...
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