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Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480559
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Sequential versus simultaneous contributions to public goods: experimental evidence
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273783
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Sequential versus simultaneous contributions to public goods: Experimental evidence
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - 2009
We report an experiment comparing sequential and simultaneous contributions to a public good in a quasi-linear two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277496
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Peer effects in pro-social behavior: social norms or social preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2010
experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. We find … also show, by conducting an experiment to measure social norms, that it is consistent with social norm compliance. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277506
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Peer effects in pro-social behaviour: Social norms or social preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392425
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Peer effects in pro-social behavior: Social norms or social preferences?
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012
experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our … preferences (Fehr-Schmidt, 1999). As we show from a norms-elicitation experiment, it is also consistent with social norms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282212
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Design a contract! : A simple principal-agent problem as a classroom experiment
Gächter, Simon (contributor);  … - 2006
We present a simple classroom principal-agent experiment that can effectively be used as a teaching device to introduce … agents and decide on an effort level. The experiment can be used to introduce students to the concepts of efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321818
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Who makes a good leader? : cooperativeness, optimism and leading-by-example
Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Renner, Elke; … - 2009
We examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the individual's beliefs about the cooperativeness of others. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898818
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Social comparison and performance : experimental evidence on the fair-wage effort hypothesis
Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2009
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908626
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Social comparison and performance : experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis
Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2010
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934053