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Habit formation and the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017
This paper examines the implications of habit formation in private and public consumption for the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods, based on a two-period model with nonlinear taxation. If the public good supply is time-invariant, the presence of habit formation generally alters the...
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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods
Krieger, Tommy - 2020
We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314808
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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034138
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Nudging cooperation
Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - 2018
post announcement mechanism does not have a significant effect on the cooperation rate. However, the nudge leads to a … striking increase in the cooperation rate. We provide suggestive evidence that the nudge we use provides subjects with a focal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982104
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The choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems : a survey of experimental research
Dannenberg, Astrid; Gallier, Carlo - 2019
A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010646
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Cooperation in a company : a large-scale experiment
Deversi, Marvin; Kocher, Martin; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020
We analyze cooperation within a company setting in order to study the relationship between cooperative attitudes and … online experiment. We observe high levels of cooperation and the typical conditional contribution patterns in a modified …, sustained levels of cooperation in our company setting relate to non-financial values of cooperation rather than solely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236842
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Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation : sorting, crowding, and spillovers
Gallier, Carlo; Goeschl, Timo; Kesternich, Martin; … - 2019
We study spatially differentiated competition between charities by partnering with two foodbanks in two neighboring cities to conduct a field experiment with roughly 350 donation appeals. We induce spatial differentiation by varying the observability of charities' location such that each donor...
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The persistent effect of competition on prosociality
Kosse, Fabian; Rajan, Ranjita; Tincani, Michela M. - 2023
literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014493908
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Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers : a two-period experiment on charitable giving
Alt, Marius; Gallier, Carlo - 2021 - This version: January, 2021
We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions of more than 700 participants. We vary how...
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Can open sourcing lead to inferior standards?
Koerselman, Kristian - 2008
I investigate the effect of open source on standardization outcomes in a market with positive network externalities. In a closed source world, it seems reasonable to assume that the probability of a standard being chosen is positively correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert...
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