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Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries

Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing...

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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...

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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games

Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot normal-form games …

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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention

Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...

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Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

obtained in a laboratory experiment affects male and female behavior differently.<p> …

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Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India

Ahmed, Ali M. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of...

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The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition

Dulleck, Uwe; Rudolf, Kerschbamer; Matthias, Sutter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the …

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Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia

Ibanez, Marcela; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

recommendations is highly debatable. We investigate the external validity of a framed field experiment that mimics coca cultivation … and find evidence that behavior in the experiment is consistent with self-reported behavior. We use the experiment to … discuss the effectiveness of carrot and stick policies on coca investments. The experiment indicates that subjects are more …

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