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Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries

Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we investigate the distribution of contribution types in two developing...

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Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …

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Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control

Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated the likelihood that individuals identified self-control conflict, and...

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Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...

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Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

obtained in a laboratory experiment affects male and female behavior differently.<p> …

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Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia

Ibanez, Marcela; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

recommendations is highly debatable. We investigate the external validity of a framed field experiment that mimics coca cultivation … and find evidence that behavior in the experiment is consistent with self-reported behavior. We use the experiment to … discuss the effectiveness of carrot and stick policies on coca investments. The experiment indicates that subjects are more …

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We … present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

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The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good

Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Matzat, Dominik; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior and trust are positively associated with cooperation in a public...

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Conditional Cooperation and Social Group - Experimental results from Colombia

Martinsson, Peter; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different cooperation behavior between social groups in the same location.<p>

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