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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?

Johnsen, Åshild - 2014

In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...

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Behavioural responses to unfair institutions : experimental evidence on rule compliance, norm polarisation, and trust

Columbus, Simon; Feld, Lars P.; Kasper, Matthias; … - 2023

and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …

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Heterogeneous productivity in voluntary public good provision : an experimental analysis

Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - 2011

vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …

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Playing "hard to get" : an economic rationale for crowding out of intrinsically motivated behavior

Schnedler, Wendelin; Vanberg, Christoph - 2014

it becomes scarce. In the second, restraint serves to conceal the actor's intrinsic motivation. In both cases, not …

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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018

quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with …

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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training

Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...

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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany

Boyer, Pierre - 2016

This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider … legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment with treatments informing individuals that the levy is a tax. We …, communicating the legal norm results in a significant crowd-out of intrinsic motivation. In contrast, strongly intrinsically …

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Social preferences and lying aversion in children

Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...

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Crime and self-control revisited : disentangling the effect of self-control on risk and social preferences

Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014

In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from both disciplines, this paper studies the relationship between self-control and both risk and...

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The effect of self-awareness and competition on dishonesty

Çıbık, Ceren Bengü; Sgroi, Daniel - 2021

-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …

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