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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...

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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...

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Who carries the Burden of Reproductive Health and AIDS Programs? - Evidence from OECD Donor Countries

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute

This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo established goals for the expansion of assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This...

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The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation; Reducing Implementations Costs through 'Matching Zones'

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Wolde, Sjoerd ten - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This paper discusses various ways to organise these consultations, so that a compromise agreement is reached on the solution of the (re)distribution problem. These institutionalised structures of consultation are referred to as 'matching zones' here. Practical experiences, mainly from the...

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Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player's strategy generates direct or indirect affine "spillover" effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision...

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Screening Disability Insurance Applications

Jong, Philip de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …

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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...

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Hurting hurts more than Helping helps: The Role of the Self-serving Bias

Offerman, Theo - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

This paper investigates an implication of the self-serving bias for reciprocal responses. It is hypothesized that negative intentionality matters more than positive intentionality for reciprocating individuals with a self-serving attributional style. Experimental evidence obtained in the hot...

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Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game reconsidered

Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …While most papers on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than …-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by letting subjects make individual as well as team decisions in an experimental …

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Trust and Recidivism; the Partial Success of Corporate Leniency Program in the Laboratory

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Soetevent, Adriaan - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

An experiment is conducted were subjects interact repeatedly to examine the effect of a particular leniency program on …

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