Offerman, Theo; van der Veen, Ailko - In: European Economic Review 74 (2015) C, pp. 96-108
According to popular belief, frogs are boiled to death when the water is heated gradually. In this paper, we investigate how humans respond to a very slow versus a very steep increase of a subsidy on contributions to a public good. In an experiment, we vary the mode of the increase (gradual...