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interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us …
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
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We report evidence from public goods experiments with and without punishment which we onducted in Russia with 566 urban … cooperation-enhancing effect of punishment. An important reason is that there is punishment of contributors in all four subject … pools. Thus, punishment can also undermine the scope for self-governance in the sense of high levels of voluntary …
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This paper investigates the impact of three age thresholds in British criminal law on self-reported offending: the possibility of custody at age 15, the switch from juvenile to adult law at age 18 and the switch from young offender institutions to adult prisons at age 21. Using longitudinal data...
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We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members’ punishment decisions to that individual. …
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I conducted an artefactual field experiment to identify whether guilt reduces crime, and how the crime reduction … sensitivity and belief. I found supporting evidence of changes in belief. My experiment is novel in that it develops an approach …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both …
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This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …
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We experimentally investigate the impact of recognizing contributors on public good contributions. We vary recognizing all, highest or lowest contributors. Consistent with previous studies, recognizing all contributors significantly increases contributions relative to the baseline. Recognizing...
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