Using belief elicitation, the paper investigates the formation and the evolution of beliefs in a signalling game in …

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated … voluntary cooperation while exposed to incentives. Overall, our findings show that the behavioral consequences of explicit …

reflection test. This is a new finding that adds weight to the claim that lack of proper financial incentives can sometimes be a … used to measure both of them. -- cognitive ability ; risk preferences ; financial incentives ; cognitive reflection test …

candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …. -- Reference Points ; Expectations ; Loss Aversion ; Risk Aversion ; Disappointment ; Experiment …

another. This implies that the composition of income or wealth is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment … of their budget, subjects change consumption according to the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this … Bracketing ; Field Experiment ; Laboratory Experiment …

environments. We assign subjects either the role of an agent or a principal in an experiment. Agents perform a real effort task and …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an … the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect …

cooperation through two mechanisms: an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an exit … examine the relative effectiveness of these two mechanisms in a one-shot, two-person public goods game experiment. We find …

We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias … the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect …