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Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups

Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek - 2021 - This version: 22.06.2021

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against … behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a … form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads …

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Competition among public good providers for donor rewards

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2021

We present experimental evidence for decision settings where public good providers compete for endogenous donations offered by outside donors. Donors receive benefits from public good provision but cannot provide the good themselves. The performance of three competition mechanisms is examined in...

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Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments

Blanco, Esther; Struwe, Natalie; Walker, James - 2020

This study presents experimental evidence on the effectiveness of alternative institutional arrangements designed to allow providers of public good services to be subsidized by non-providers. The decision setting is a repeated linear public good game with two groups, insiders and outsiders....

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Conditional cooperation on three continents

Kocher, Martin; Cherry, Todd L.; Kroll, Stephan; … - 2007

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral ….S.A. than anywhere else. -- conditional cooperation ; public goods ; experiment …

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No response to changes in marginal incentives in one-shot public good experiments

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023

participants make a single provision decision. Data was collected using three "data collection processes": an online experiment … conducted on Prolific, an online experiment conducted with a subject pool of university students, and an experiment implemented …

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Security of property as a public good : institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis G.; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

property rights. -- property rights ; theft ; efficiency ; experiment ; socio-political factors …

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The dos and don'ts of leadership in sequential public goods experiments

Rivas, María Fernanda; Sutter, Matthias - 2008

and punishment as leadership devices, (ii) whether endogenous leadership is more efficient than exogenously enforced … are: (i) Reward options yield lower contributions than punishment through exclusion. (ii) Endogenous leadership is much … experiment ; leadership ; exclusion power ; reward ; endogeneity …

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Provision of public goods : unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders

Blanco, Esther; Haller, Tobias; Walker, James M. - 2016 - Provisional draft

The provision of public goods often benefits a larger group than those who actively provide the public good. In an experimental setting, this paper addresses institutional arrangements between subjects who can provide a public good (insiders) and subjects who benefit from the public good but...

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Donations to increase productivity in public good production : experimental evidence

Struwe, Natalie; Blanco, Esther; Walker, James - 2023 - This version: March 2023

This research is inspired by in-kind donations that have the capacity to increase the marginal benefit (productivity) in provision of public goods, for example by providing critical infrastructure that increases the productivity of resources utilized by local public good providers. We provide...

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Choosing the carrot or the stick? : endogenous institutional choice in social dilemma situations

Sutter, Matthias; Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin - 2008

; punishment ; reward ; endogenous institutional choice ; voting ; experiment … choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining high …

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