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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution

Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote … combinations of homogenous or heterogeneous endowment, strong or weak identity, and absence or presence of peer punishment. We find … that without punishment, strong identity can counteract the negative impact of endowment heterogeneity on cooperation …

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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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Punishment Cannot Sustain Cooperation in a Public Good Game with Free-Rider Anonymity

Patel, Amrish; Cartwright, Edward; Mark, Van Vugt - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

public good game we consider the e¤ect of free-rider anonymity on the ability of voluntary punishment to sustain cooperative … social norms. Despite only inducing a weak form of free-rider anonymity, punishment falls and cannot sustain cooperation.<p> …

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Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies

Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment players within …

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Bridging the Great Divide in South Africa: Inequality and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods

Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

We explore the effect of income inequality and peer punishment on voluntary provision of public goods in an … find that aggregate cooperation is higher in both the voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) and punishment treatments for … the VCM treatment is significantly enhanced. Demand for punishment by low and high endowment players are similar …

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Identifying the Socioeconomic Determinants of Crime in Spanish Provinces

Buonanno, Paolo; Estivill, Daniel Montolio - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2005

In this paper we study, having as theoretical reference the economic model of crime (Becker, 1968; Ehrlich, 1973 …), which are the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of crime in Spain paying attention on the role of provincial … peculiarities. We estimate a crime equation using a panel dataset of Spanish provinces (NUTS3) for the period 1993 to 1999 employing …

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Social preferences are stable over long periods of time

Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Pham, Khanh Nam - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the same non-student sample in rural Vietnam at four different points in time...

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When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. Furthermore, we compare these policy rules with those that follow from...

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State-Variable Public Goods and Social Comparisons over Time

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both keeping-up-with-the-Joneses preferences (where people compare their own current consumption with...

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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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