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Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even … implementation to allocations that are supportable given the effect of incentives on preferences. …
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interact in such situations. In this paper we provide experimental evidence on this question. In a first experiment givers are … the realized state of the world. In a second experiment, risk affects the earnings of givers but not of beneficiaries. We …
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behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
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Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees …-liefs about the cooperativeness of others. Incentives hence have strong positive effects on cooperative beliefs, irrespective of …
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The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...
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norm compliance. We conducted an experiment in German with three games commonly used to study fair sharing, cooperation …
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We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We … intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices. … elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment in which we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and …
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behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We …
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behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and a structural model of preferences that …
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preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …
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