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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and 'the Broken Windows' Effect : An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Lefèbvre, Mathieu - 2011

behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about others' behavior. Subjects have to … treatment and from black labor supplementing some unemployment compensation in the Welfare treatment. Subjects have then to … more in the Welfare treatment than in the Tax treatment; (ii) many subjects choose an option that allows for tax evasion or …

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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation

Joffily, Mateus - 2011

We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites individuals to apply sanctions when they are available. The application of sanctions activates a...

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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

Masclet, David - 2012

punishment, so that they increase overall welfare? We report an experiment in which players can issue non-binding threats to … punishment leads to lower threats, cooperation and welfare, restoring them to levels equal to or below the levels attained in the …

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo - 2012

We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first elicit the individuals' principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three...

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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests

Benistant, Julien - 2019

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...

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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes Toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Hao, Li - 2014

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find that, migrants exhibit no differences from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences...

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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas : An Experiment with Police Commissioners

Dickinson, David L. - 2014

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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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children

Maggian, Valeria - 2014

While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is …

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Endogenous Leadership : Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...

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