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Guha, Brishti - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 94 (2013) C, pp. 1-10

these expenses unless the efficacy of joint (public and private) security expenses on combating crime encounters very … increases the tendency to keep cash on hand, and also reduces crime, provided that as private precautions increase, with … are consistent with some empirical trends in crime rates, policing, penalties and private precautions. …

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Crime, fertility, and economic growth: Theory and evidence

Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Papadopoulou, Vea - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 101-121

This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

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The enemy you can’t see: An investigation of the disruption of dark networks

McBride, Michael; Hewitt, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 32-50

We examine the optimal disruption of dark (covert and illegal) networks. Of central importance is that an interventionist will generally have incomplete information about the dark network's architecture. We derive the optimal disruption strategy in a stylized model of dark network intervention...

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The impact of burden sharing rules on the voluntary provision of public goods

Kesternich, Martin; Lange, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 105 (2014) C, pp. 107-123

We investigate how burden sharing rules impact the voluntary provision of a public good which generates heterogeneous benefits to agents. We compare different rule-based contribution schemes where agents can first suggest a minimum provision level of the public good, before the smallest common...

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Social preferences can make imperfect sanctions work: Evidence from a public good experiment

Engel, Christoph - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 343-353

Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I test the hypothesis that imperfect sanctions may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using a linear public good...

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Cooperation in local and global groups

Fellner, Gerlinde; Lünser, Gabriele K. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 364-373

Multiple group memberships are the rule rather than the exception. Within a linear public good game, we experimentally investigate two possible factors that impact the decision to cooperate in a smaller, local or a larger, global group: diverging marginal per capita returns, resulting in...

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“Feel the Warmth” glow: A field experiment on manipulating the act of giving

Chuan, Amanda; Samek, Anya Savikhin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 198-211

We conducted a field experiment with a charitable group to investigate whether giving the donor an option to write a personalized holiday card to the recipient influences giving behavior. Over 1500 households were approached in a door-to-door campaign and randomized to either a treatment group,...

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Economic incentives and social preferences: Causal evidence of non-separability

Faravelli, Marco; Stanca, Luca - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 273-289

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the objective function of economic agents is non-separable in economic incentives and social preferences. We study fixed-prize contests in a 2×2 experimental design, varying orthogonally the degree of competition of the incentive mechanism (all-pay...

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The design of charitable fund-raising schemes: Matching grants or seed money

Gong, Ning; Grundy, Bruce D. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 147-165

For a fixed large donation a matching scheme that simply uses a one-for-one match ratio can actually raise less money than a seed money scheme. But when the match ratio is chosen to reflect the characteristics of the small donor base so as to exhaust the large donor's willingness to give,...

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Heterogeneity and cooperation: The role of capability and valuation on public goods provision

Kölle, Felix - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 109 (2015) C, pp. 120-134

We experimentally investigate the effects of two different sources of heterogeneity – capability and valuation – on the provision of public goods when punishment is possible or not. We find that compared to homogeneous groups, asymmetric valuations for the public good have negative effects...

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