We study the interplay between leading-by-example and group identity in a public goods game experiment. A common … identity between the leader and her followers is beneficial for cooperation: average contributions are more than 30% higher … identities. We find no effect on cooperation when only part of the followers share the leader’s identity, or when followers share …

update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …

update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …

update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …

In this paper we study the effects of providing additional feedback about individual contributions and/or earnings on … aggregate, contributions are lower when feedback on earnings is provided compared to when feedback on contributions is provided …. We also find that there exist substantial but intuitively appealing differences in the way individuals react to feedback …

In this paper we study the effects of providing additional feedback about individual contributions and earnings on the … feedback. Particularly, individuals with a high propensity to contribute tend to imitate the highest contributor more often and … are more inclined to obtain feedback about individual contributions than about individual earnings than individuals with a …

mechanism. To examine the empirical properties of the mechanism we conducted a large series of experiments. It turns out that …