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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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We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have … conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock contest, and measure its effects upon cooperation using a multi …-level public good game. We demonstrate that conflict increases cooperation within groups, while decreasing cooperation between …
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, fostering unselfish cooperation and norm enforcement within the group, but whether there is also a dark side, in the form of … hostility between groups. Our experiment provides the first evidence without the confounding effect of self-selection into … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …
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fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more …This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …
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Many of our most pressing challenges, from combating climate change to dealing with pandemics, are collective action problems: situations in which individual and collective interests conflict with each other. In such situations people face a dilemma about making individually costly but...
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incentives to switch affiliation and/or location in a dual environment, where potential gains from in-group cooperation for the …
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Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing …
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