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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals' information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and find...

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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness across Ethnic Groups : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Bartos, Vojtech - 2018

We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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Quality vs. Quantity in Information Transmission : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Lafky, Jonathan - 2015

efficiency gains by introducing incentives that reward information sharing, even where those incentives drive a wedge between …

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Opening Hours of Polling Stations and Voter Turnout : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

Voter turnout has declined in many industrialized countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of opening hours of polling...

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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...

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Complex Tax Incentives - An Experimental Investigation

Abeler, Johannes - 2013

payoff-maximizing effort level and the incentives around this optimum are, however, identical across treatments. We introduce …

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Hidden Benefits of Reward : A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives

Kvaloy, Ola - 2013

interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied …

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The Effect of Incentives of Real Effort : Evidence from the Slider Task

de Araujo, Felipe Augusto - 2015

Real-effort experiments are frequently used when examining a response to incentives. For any particular real …-effort task to be well-suited for such an exercise, subjects' cost for exerting effort must, for the range of incentives … nonmonetary incentives. However, despite its increasing use, a simple between-subject examination of the slider task's response to …

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