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Strong, bold, and kind : self-control and cooperation in social dilemmas

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R. - 2013

We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...

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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences …. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences …, although during the last two decades, the use of lab experiments has accelerated. Nonetheless, there remains considerable …

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Rationalizable Variable-Population ChoiceFunctions

Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David J. - University of British Columbia <Vancouver, British …; … - 1999

We analyze the rationalizability of variable-population social-choice functions in a welfaristframework. It is shown that xed-population rationalizability and a weakening ofcongruence together are necessary and suffcient for rational choice, given a plausible dominanceproperty that prevents the...

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The Value of Limited Altruism

Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David - University of British Columbia <Vancouver, British …; … - 1998

Discounting the utilities of future people or giving smaller weights to groups other thanone's own is often criticized on the grounds that the resulting objective function diers fromthe ethically appropriate one...

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Price-Independent Welfare PrescriptionsandPopulation Size

Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David - University of British Columbia <Vancouver, British …; … - 1997

This note investigates the extension of Roberts' price-independent welfare prescriptions toalternatives in which population size and composition can vary. We show that ethicallyunsatisfactory orderings result. Suppose that a single person is to be added to a populationthat is unaected in utility...

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Rationalizable Solutions to Pure PopulationProblems

Blackorby, Charles; Bossert, Walter; Donaldson, David - University of British Columbia <Vancouver, British …; … - 2007

In pure population problems, a single resource is to be distributed equally among theagents in a society, and the social planner chooses population size(s) and per-capita consumption(s) for each resource constraint and set of feasible population sizes within thedomain of the solution...

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