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Pledging, praising and shaming : experimental labour markets in Ghana

Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017

research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate …

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Incentive contracts crowd out voluntary cooperation : evidence from gift-exchange experiments

Gächter, Simon; Kaiser, Esther; Königstein, Manfred - 2024

Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many … crowding out of voluntary cooperation even after incentives have been abolished. This crowding out occurs also in repeated …-effort relationships. Our systematic analysis also replicates established results on gift exchange, incentives, and crowding out of …

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Can contracts signal social norms? : experimental evidence

Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013

We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...

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The right person for the right job: workers' prosociality as a screening device

Bigoni, Maria; Ploner, Matteo; Vu, Thi-Thanh-Tam - 2021

The impact of workers' non-pecuniary motivation on their productivity is a fundamental issue in labor economics. Previous studies indicate that prosocially motivated workers may perform better when assigned to jobs having socially desirable implications - even if effort is non contractible and...

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Learning about a class of belief-dependent preferences without information on beliefs

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2011

We show how to bound the effect of belief-dependent preferences on choices in sequential two-player games without information about the (higher-order) beliefs of players. The approach can be applied to a class of belief-dependent preferences which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and...

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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002

incentives to switch affiliation and/or location in a dual environment, where potential gains from in-group cooperation for the …

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Envy and compassion in tournaments

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2002

than purely self-interested agents for a given prize structure. Contrary to standard tournament theory first-best efforts …

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Take a chance on ABBA

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017

The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...

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Preemptive behavior in sequential tournaments

Jost, Peter-J.; Kräkel, Matthias - 2000

Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequentially. We show that agents' strategic behavior significantly differs in sequential tournaments compared to simultaneous tournaments. In a sequential tournament, under certain conditions the...

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