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The behavioral mechanisms of voluntary cooperation across culturally diverse societies : evidence from the US, the UK, Morocco, and Turkey
Weber, Till O.; Schulz, Jonathan F.; Beranek, Benjamin; … - 2023
We examine the role of cooperative preferences, beliefs, and punishments to uncover potential cross … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative … subject pools and highlights the central role of beliefs in explaining differences in voluntary cooperation within and across …
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Decisions on extending group membership : evidence from a public good experiment
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten; … - 2019
We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision mechanism to extend the temporary agent's group...
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
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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Using the strategy method and elicited beliefs to explain group size and MPCR effects in public good experiments
Gächter, Simon; Mariño Fages, Diego - 2023
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Social preferences and the variability of conditional cooperation
Baader, Malte; Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, … - 2022
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma games with payoffs systematically varied across games. We find that few second...
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Can compulsory dialogues nudge sick-listed workers back to work?
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Schreiner, Ragnhild C. - 2015
We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of absence, and its purpose is to bring together the absentee, the employer, and the family physician...
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Simple tests for selection bias : learning more from instrumental variables
Black, Dan A.; Joo, Joonhwi; LaLonde, Robert John; … - 2015
We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and untreated outcomes, but also to assess the magnitude of the...
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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013
In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing...
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Instrumental variables : an econometrician's perspective
Imbens, Guido - 2014
I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand models and relate them to the recent applications in settings of randomized experiments with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259577
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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
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