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Randomizing Endowments : An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences
Goette, Lorenz - 2014
exchange. The experiment tightly tests the predictions of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), as when the probability of forced exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043666
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128231
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010
fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136030
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gaechter, Simon - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044717
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach
Habyarimana, James P.; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, … - 2021
A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317460
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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Voting with Feet : Community Choice in Social Dilemmas
Gürerk, Özgür - 2010
Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We experimentally investigate community choice in social dilemmas. Participants repeatedly choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149693
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Behavioral Economics and the Value of a Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2019
There are many possible connections between VSL and behavioral economics. A list of topics includes endowment effects, risk salience, ambiguity aversion, present bias, reference groups, reference points, and experienced versus decision utilities. There are also nudges that connect to estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870202
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The Price of Warm Glow
Lilley, Andrew - 2013
predictions of the model we ran an experiment in which we varied within-subjects the costs and benefits of monetary and volunteer … the donor (impure warm-glow altruism). Consistent with the model's predictions, the experiment shows that priming pure … overall charitable donations. We discuss the implications of our experimental results for both theory and policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080136
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Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life
Albouy, David - 2014
We present a hedonic framework to estimate U.S. households' preferences over local climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, will pay more on the margin to avoid excess heat than cold, and are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064120