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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/10014319160
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Heterogeneous productivity in voluntary public good provision : an experimental analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - 2011
vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233013
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Why volunteer? : Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
altruism, reputational concerns, and material incentives. We present an analysis of a unique data set that combines an … experimental measure of altruism, surveyed measures of other factors including reputational concerns, and call records from … explanations, we find that altruism and reputational concerns are positively associated with the decision to volunteer. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561613
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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/10011979838
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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/10011844819
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Incentives for cooperation in teams: sociality meets decision rights
Butz, Britta; Guillén, Pablo; Harbring, Christine - 2021
We investigate the effect of a donation incentive tied to contributions to a public good when group members can decide on the size of the donation to be made. An up to 20 % donation of the public good was implemented either exogenously or endogenously by group members. In the Vote treatment,...
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Why join a team?
Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista Jabs; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019
We present experiments exploring why high ability workers join teams with less able co-workers when there are no short-term financial benefits. We distinguish between two explanations: pro-social preferences and expected long-term financial gains from teaching future teammates. Participants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104859
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359304
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Will there be blood? : incentives and substitution effects in pro-social behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - 2009
experiment corroborates these findings and confirms that donors are motivated by the economic value of the items offered. We also … overestimated. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919831
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To what do people contribute? : ongoing operations vs. sustainable supplies
Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Schwarz, Mordechai E.; … - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985963