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Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2007

they are really the most challenging ones for conventional theory. New developments are emerging both at the theoretical …

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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007

This paper examines the role of simplified heuristics in the formation of preferences for public goods. Political scientists have suggested that voters use simplified heuristics based on the positions of familiar parties to infer how a proposed policy will affect them and to cast a vote in line...

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Self-reinforcing market dominance

Halbheer, Daniel; Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz; … - 2007

Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms...

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Growing groups, cooperation, and the rate of entry

Ranehill, Eva; Schneider, Frédéric; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying group growth rates. Using a laboratory public-good game, we construct a situation where increasing group size yields potential efficiency gains, but only with sustained cooperation. We then study the effect of exogenously...

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What makes voters turn out: The effects of polls and beliefs

Agranov, Marina; Goeree, Jacob K.; Romero, Julian; … - 2012

We use laboratory experiments to test for one of the foundations of the rational voter paradigm - that voters respond to probabilities of being pivotal. We exploit a setup that entails stark theoretical effects of information concerning the preference distribution (as revealed through polls) on...

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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Lindqvist, Linus - 2005

The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...

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The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: A test of Cattell's investment theory

Kvist, Ann Valentin; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric - 2007

According to Cattell’s (1987) Investment theory individual differences in acquisition of knowledge and skills are … this theory holds true Gf will be a factor of General Intelligence (g) because it is involved in all domains of learning …. The purpose of the current study was to test the Investment theory, through investigating effects on the relation between …

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Individual sense of fairness: An experimental study

Karni, Edi; Salmon, Timothy C.; Sopher, Barry - 2001

This paper presents an experimental test of the theory of individual sense of fairness of Karni and Safra (2000 …). According to this theory individuals' choice among random procedures designed to allocate indivisible goods is motivated, in …

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Voluntary association in public goods experiments: Reciprocity, mimicry, and efficiency

Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis; Unel, Bulent - 2002

We study the. Incentive effects of endogenous group formation in a voluntary contributon experiment. Subjects are given information on the past contributions of others and allowed to express a preference for partners. On the basis of the stated preferences new groups are formed. We find that the...

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Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism

Anderson, Christopher M.; Putterman, Louis - 2003

The prospect of receiving a monetary sanction for free riding has been shown to increase contributions to public goods. We ask whether the impulse to punish is unresponsive to the cost to the punisher, or whether, like other preferences, it interacts with prices to generate a conventional demand...

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