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This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
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temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation …
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temporary group member's effort but also the efforts of the permanent group members and, ultimately, also cooperation within the …
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-societal differences in voluntary cooperation. Using one-shot public goods experiments in four comparable subject pools from the US and the … cooperation is lower in Morocco and Turkey than in the UK and the US. Using the ABC approach - in which cooperative attitudes and … beliefs explain cooperation - we show that cooperation is mostly driven by differences in beliefs rather than cooperative …
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We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an audit is unknown. We study how individuals update their beliefs about the probability of being...
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of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …
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key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …
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cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition from all individuals being partner over blended … composition does not affect cooperation in the subsequent partner setting with one exception: Groups cooperate significantly less …
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equilibrium strategy. Exclusion has a positive impact on cooperation when it is followed by a quick rather than a slow … retaliation. Post-exclusion cooperation and forgiveness depend not only on the length of exclusion but also on the perceived …
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