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Risk-taking in social settings : group and peer effects

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nieboer, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - 2013 - Revised version of 2013-01, This version: June 6, 2013

We investigate experimentally the effect of consultation (unincentivized advice) on choices under risk in an incentivized investment task. We compare consultation to two benchmark treatments: one with isolated individual choices, and a second with group choice after communication. Our benchmark...

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Deviant or wrong? : the effects of norm information on the efficacy of punishment

Bicchieri, Cristina; Dimant, Eugen; Xiao, Erte - 2017 - This version: November 13, 2017

A stream of research examining the effect of punishment on conformity indicates that punishment can backfire and lead … enforcement mechanisms of punishment and norms cannot achieve higher cooperation rates. In fact, conformity is significantly …, when cooperation is expensive we find that the combination of punishment and empirical information about others conformity …

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The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt - 2010

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we onducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990183

The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished : experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia

Gächter, Simon (contributor); … - 2007

We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we conducted in Russia with 566 urban and rural participants of young and mature age cohorts. Russia is interesting for studying voluntary cooperation because of its long history of collectivism, and a huge...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579958

Signaling about norms : socialization under strategic uncertainty

Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2013

We consider a society with informed individuals (adults) and naive individuals (children). Adults are altruistic towards their own children and possess information that allows to better predict the behavior of other adults. Children benefit from adopting behaviors that conform to the social norm...

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Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation

Thöni, Christian; Gächter, Simon - 2014 - This version: February 2014

Social preferences and social influence effects ("peer effects") are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social preferences matter are often situations where peer effects are likely too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent...

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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order

Gächter, Simon - 2014

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualised as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...

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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing

Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...

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On the social appropriateness of discrimination

Barr, Abigail; Lane, Tom; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

Understanding what motivates discrimination is of importance to economists and social scientists in general. In this paper, the authors address whether the taste to discriminate against outsiders is related to social norms. Recent studies have shown various different types of economic behaviour...

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Norm elicitation in within-subject designs : testing for order effects

D'Adda, Giovanna; Drouvelis, Michalis; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2015

We investigate norms of corruption using the norm-elicitation procedure introduced by Krupka and Weber (2013). We use a within-subject design whereby the norms are elicited from the same subjects who are observed making choices in a bribery game. We test whether the order in which the...

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