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bear a higher burden of punishment costs than non-police subjects. When the norm enforcement institution is endogenous, all …
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We test whether humans are intuitively inclined to cooperate with or punish strangers using a natural field experiment … pressure can increase rates of punishment. We discuss our results with respect to findings in the lab on cognitive models of …
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potential mechanisms through which these letters may affect fine compliance and present results from a natural field experiment …
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. To this end, we conduct a repeated public goods experiment with and without punishment using samples from the laboratory … and the online platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We chose to replicate this experiment because it is long and logistically … interactive experimentation. We find that basic behavioral patterns of cooperation and punishment in the laboratory are replicable …
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refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …
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and indirect reciprocity as well as third-party punishment – emerges earliest as an effective means to increase … cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma game. We find that third-party punishment exhibits a strikingly positive effect on … cooperation rates by doubling them in comparison to a control condition. It promotes cooperative behavior even before punishment …
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participants in an experiment. Our results suggest that Basu's "Republic of Beliefs" idea provides a critical insight in policy …
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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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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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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
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