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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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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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-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …
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implications. -- group membership ; competition ; punishment ; army ; experiment …
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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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they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and …
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Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether …
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experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms … explanation for the observed peer effect. -- peer effects ; social influence ; gift-exchange ; experiment ; social preferences …
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Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether … effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this finding, we run a second experiment in which subjects can choose …. -- motivation ; effort provision ; contract choice ; sorting ; lab experiment …
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prosocial behavior. We conduct a large-scale online experiment where we add the possibility of purchasing insurance to safeguard …
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