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Inequality, Social Sanctions and Cooperation within South African Fishing
Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
We explore the effect of income inequality and social attitudes on the cooperation and sanctioning in nine South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754417
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Private provision of a public good: cooperation and altruism of internet forum users
Ros-Galvez, Alejandro; Rosa-García, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
are; however, we find no relation between activity in the forum and cooperation. These results suggest that the public … feeling of community supports the cooperation in that provision. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111683
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Fairness and Accountability: Testing Models of Social Norms in Unequal
Visser, Martine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013
We examine behavioural models involved in the provision of public goods when income inequality exists within groups. Our sample consists of individuals from urban and rural South African fishing communities. We find that behaviour observed in unequal groups does not accord with models of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754432
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Control without Deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
sensitive to free-riding than cooperation on the part of others. The experiment provides similar results to Weimann's, in that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136962
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Linear Public Goods Experiments: A Meta-Analysis
Zelmer, Jennifer - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2001
cooperation in standard linear public goods experiments using the voluntary contributions mechanism. Potentially relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181105
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Pure Redistribution and the Provision of Public Goods
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2006
We study pure redistribution as a device to increase cooperation and efficiency in the provision of public goods …, subjects can redistribute payoffs among other subjects in their group. We find that cooperation and efficiency increases … explanation for why an imposed redistribution rule, as proposed by Falkinger (1996), is capable of sustaining cooperation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749692
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The Relation between Information and Heterogeneous Ability in Joint Projects - An experimental Analysis -
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
We study voluntary contribution behavior of individuals who vary in their ability to contribute to a joint project under different information scenarios. We investigate a situation with two types who vary only in their external marginal return (low and high). Results of a laboratory experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739577
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868135
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: an Experimental Analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members’ marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461103
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Control without Deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
experimentprompted by Weimann's (1994) result, from adeceptive design, that subjects are more sensitive to free-ridingthan cooperation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256339