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), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and … social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and …
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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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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are …
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The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
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hypothesized and examined in theory and experiments, the literature is largely silent on the comparison. I report the results of a …
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schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. …
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"descriptive norm") what they really value (the "prescriptive norm"), thus presenting her with a tradeoff between incentives and …
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schemes designed to encourage either participation or volume. Our results confirm the importance of incentives in that we find …
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incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …
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In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits for live and deceased organ and bone marrow donations and to employers of donors. We exploit...
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