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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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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...
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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...
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literature on tournaments within firms, which shows that competitive compensation schemes reduce cooperation in the short-run, we …
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International climate negotiations have so far failed to produce ambitious climate cooperation. We combine laboratory … negotiate more frequently. We find that more frequent interactions allow subjects to build trust and cooperation more safely …. Thus, more frequent revisions of commitments promote cooperation, but the ratchet-up design fails to achieve the same …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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