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The spillover effects of affirmative action on competitiveness and unethical behavior

Banerjee, Ritwik; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Villeval, … - 2016

We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the … context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence of Affirmative Action policies remain … increase substantially the confidence of the lower caste members and motivate them to choose significantly more frequently a …

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Discrimination, narratives and family history: an experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020

Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents' narratives about the refugee crisis are …

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Ambiguity on audits and cooperation in a public goods game

Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...

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Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups?

Bjedov, Tjaša; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry; … - 2018

Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when …

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Norm enforcement in social dilemmas : an experiment with police commissioners

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism game and a Common Pool Resource game. Our experimental design includes...

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The tragedy of corruption

Chen, Yefeng; Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2016

We investigate corruption as a social dilemma by means of a bribery game in which a risk of collective sanction of the public officials is introduced when the number of officials accepting a bribe from firms reaches a certain threshold. We show that, despite the social risk, the pursuit of...

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Exclusion and reintegration in a social dilemma

Solda, Alice; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2017

Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...

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Dishonesty as a collective-risk social dilemma

Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2022

We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...

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Endogenous leadership : selection and influence

Arbak, Emrah (contributor); … - 2007

lead, we report the results of a two-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. Even though it turns out to be …

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Threat and punishment in public good experiments

Masclet, David; Noussair, Charles; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to … absence of threats. -- threats ; cheap talk ; sanctions ; public good ; experiment …

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