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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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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S. - 2008

the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment to provide behavioural evidence that is rare in such a …

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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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Negative Reciprocity and the Interaction of Emotions and Fairness Norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Van Winden, F. A. A. M. - 2021

This experimental study investigates how behavior changes after punishment for an unkind action. It also studies how fairness perceptions affect the reaction to punishment and whether this effect is consistent across repeated play and role experiences. A repeated version of the power-to-take...

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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators

Cagala, Tobias - 2018

This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent …

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

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A Note on the Design of Experiments Involving Public Goods

Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010

Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...

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Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters

Matějka, Filip - 2016

How do voters allocate costly attention to alternative political issues? And how does selective ignorance of voters interact with policy design by politicians? We address these questions by developing a model of electoral competition with rationally inattentive voters. Rational inattention...

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Security of Property as a Public Good : Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2021

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...

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Sequential versus Simultaneous Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

Gaechter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - CESifo - 2009

We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two …

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