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Hooliganism and Police Tactics : Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2021
Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an increase in discriminative policing, provided by...
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The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation within and between Groups : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Beekman, Gonne - 2014
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
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Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – an Experimental Study
Grözinger, Nicola - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834578
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Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment About In-Group Favouritism
Hammermann, Andrea - 2012
choose as a team mate. The novel feature of your study is that the choice of a team mate is either benevolence or relevant to … (path of study) of the pool of possible team mates and received a signal giving weak information about their ability … chosen team mate. However, we found the opposite. The subjects exerted more favouritism in the revenue sharing scenario …
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Strength in Numbers : A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Stoddard, Olga; Karpowitz, Chris; Preece, Jessica - 2021
-year field experiment with a top-10 undergraduate accounting program that randomized the gender composition of semester … decisions less often than men's. Our findings have implications for team assignments in male-dominated settings and cast …
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870139
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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Jakiela, Pamela - 2016
We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the survey. We measure individual risk...
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Does War Foster Cooperation or Parochialism? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Among Turkish Conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - 2023
Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260612
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An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...
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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2011
There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three...
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