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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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benefits. Prior research with small groups emphasizes the role of fairness concerns with positive effects on cooperation. We …
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contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, we show that incentive contracts can lead to … unpack these results as a function of positive and negative reciprocity, as well as the principals' wage offer and the …
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desert, so desert guilt generates behavior consistent with both positive and negative reciprocity and may underpin social …
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We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … prevalent at a very young age. However, direct and indirect reciprocity treatments do not increase overall cooperation rates, as …
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in which the effectiveness of mutual monitoring depends not on these factors, but rather on strong reciprocity: the … reciprocity in teams. -- team production ; public good ; monitoring ; punishment ; experiment …
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hypothesized and examined in theory and experiments, the literature is largely silent on the comparison. I report the results of a …
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Do White and Black Americans differ in their response to fair versus unfair treatment, and do these reactions depend on whether treatment is intentional? We study an ultimatum game in which we non-deceptively vary three dimensions: racial identities of participants, offer inequality, and whether...
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which includes reciprocity (Dufwenberg and Kirchsteiger, 2004) and guilt aversion (Battigalli and Dufwenberg, 2007) as … effect of reciprocity in the games we consider. Our bounds suggest the model of reciprocity we consider is not a significant … determinant of decisions in our experiment. -- belief-dependent preferences ; guilt aversion ; reciprocity ; partial …
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