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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 G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

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 different...

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Too lucky to be true : fairness views under the shadow of cheating

Bortolotti, Stefania; Soraperra, Ivan; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2017

inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of ….e., participants who never redistribute. Without cheating opportunities, libertarian fairness views dominate, while egalitarian views …

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Envy, guilt, and the Phillips curve

Ahrens, Steffen; Snower, Dennis J. - 2012

; long-run Phillips curve ; fairness ; inequity aversion …

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine pre-registered hypotheses about which of three fundamental pillars of human cooperation – direct and indirect reciprocity, and third-party punishment – emerges earliest...

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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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Diagnostic uncertainty and insurance coverage in credence goods markets

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2020

net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …

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Identity-driven cooperation versus competition

Snower, Dennis J.; Bosworth, Steven - 2016

developments have important welfare implications. …

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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices

Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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