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The effect of conflict history on cooperation within and between groups : evidence from a laboratory experiment

Beekman, Gonne; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - 2014

We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...

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Shifting punishment on minorities: experimental evidence of scapegoating

Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021

This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...

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An experimental study of voting with costly delay

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

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Voting as a war of attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...

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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...

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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Minority salience and political extremism

Colussi, Tommaso; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2016

This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political...

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Habemus Papam? : polarization and conflict in the Papal States

Pino, Francisco; Vidal-Robert, Jordi - 2020

We study the effect of divisions within the elite on the probability of internal conflict in the Papal States between 1295 and 1846. We assemble a new database using information on cardinals that participated in conclaves during this period, and construct measures of polarization and...

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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …

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