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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509266
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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496966
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Human pro-social motivation and the maintenance of social order
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to … motivation can sustain cooperation if enough people cooperate but can jeopardise social order if many others follow selfish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337527
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Hate Trumps love : the impact of political polarization on social preferences
Dimant, Eugen - 2021
Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. I quantify this phenomenon through the use of 5 pre-registered studies, comprising 15 behavioral experiments and a diverse set of over 8,600 participants. The focus of this paper is to examine various behavioral-, belief-, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513376
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Why people obey the law : experimental evidence from the provision of public goods
Feld, Lars P.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2002
According to economists, severe legal sanctions deter violations of the law. According to legal scholars, people may obey law backed by mild sanctions because of norm-activation. We experimentally investigate the effects of mild and severe legal sanctions in the provision of public goods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408944
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321962
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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016
We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568762
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825357
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973983
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Noblesse oblige? : determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Savage, David A. (contributor) - 2008
sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled … cultural background matter. -- Decision under pressure ; altruism ; social norms ; interdependent preferences ; excess of …
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