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Strength of the Social Dilemma in a Public Goods Experiment: An Exploration of the Error Hypothesis

Willinger, Marc; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - In: Experimental Economics 4 (2001) 2, pp. 131-144

We present the results of an experiment on voluntary contributions to a public good with a unique dominant strategy … which combines altruism and decision errors fits quite well our laboratory data. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 …

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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers? An Experiment on Minimum Wages

Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim - 2012

To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the consumers exhibit...

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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...

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Motives for Sharing in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Jakarta

Ado, Akifumi; Kurosaki, Takashi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2014

altruism, directed altruism, sanction aversion, and reciprocity. The study area is located on the periphery of the Metropolis … transfers based on baseline altruism accounted for the largest amount.Because the difference in the transferred amounts arising …: preference-related motives (baseline and directed altruism) and incentive-related motives (sanction aversion and reciprocity) for …

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Generosity norms and intrinsic motivation in health care provision: evidence from the laboratory and the field

Brock, J. Michelle; Lange, Andreas; Leonard, Kenneth L. - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2012

We examine the correlation between the generosity of clinicians – as measured in a laboratory experiment – and the …

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II – Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a “social planner” or a “veil of ignorance …” experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …

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Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Henrich, Joseph; Boyd, Robert; Bowles, Samuel; Camerer, … - Santa Fe Institute - 2001

Experimental behavioral scientists have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in over a hundred experiments from around the world. Prior research cannot determine whether this uniformity results from universal patterns of behavior, or from the...

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Signaling and search in humanitarian giving: models of donor and organization behavior in the humanitarian space

Wardell, Clarence L. - 2009

At its core, this dissertation examines the role of information, particularly as it relates to proxies for quality, and how it affects both donor and organization decision processes in the humanitarian space. In Chapter 2 I consider the context of competition within the sub-sector of...

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Does Government Regulation Complement Existing Community Efforts to Support Cooperation? Evidence from Field Experiments in Colombia

Lopez, Maria Claudia; Murphy, James J.; Spraggon, John M.; … - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2012

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“Show the right thing to do”. The effect of exemplary behavior in public good games

Godoy, Sara - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2011

Using a linear public good game we investigate the role of exemplary behavior on cooperation in public goods games. Subjects face the chance of show a good (like the employee of the month) or a bad example (evading taxes) to the rest of their group, knowing in advance that the unique feedback...

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