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Information-sensitive Leviathans
Nicklisch, Andreas; Grechenig, Kristoffel; Thoeni, Christian - 2016
We study information conditions under which individuals are willing to delegate their sanctioning power to a central authority. We design a public goods game in which players can move between institutional environments, and we vary the observability of others' contributions. We find that the...
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Political self-serving bias and redistribution
Deffains, Bruno; Espinosa, Romain; Thoeni, Christian - 2015
experiment in which participants decide on redistribution after performing a real effort task. Dependent on individual …
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Selection into experiments : evidence from a population of students
Schulz, Jonathan F.; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; … - 2019
a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … literature; and a recruitment experiment that varied information provided in a typical e-mail recruitment procedure for lab … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …
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