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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis
Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011
vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about …
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
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Trust as a Signal of a Social Norm and the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
Sliwka, Dirk - 2007
An explanation for motivation crowding-out phenomena is developed in a social preferences framework. Besides selfish … that norm. High-powered incentives may crowd out motivation as pessimism about the norm is conveyed. But by choosing fixed …
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions : What Can We Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
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Family Social Norms and Child Labor
Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2022
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding Out of Non-Monetary Motives
Huffman, David - 2018
, however, with a minority of workers report crowding in of motivation. Thus, the impact of performance pay might depend on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907833
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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences
Oxoby, Robert J. - 2014
We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences : A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
Angerer, Silvia - 2014
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …
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Waiting to Give
Craig, Ashley - 2014
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes more costly. Exploiting a natural variation in which donor wait times are random, we use the...
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010
Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a setting where all agents can monitor and punish each other (i.e., in a complete network). The...
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