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between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent …
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For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...
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We investigate whether peer punishment is an efficient mechanism for enforcing cooperation in an experiment with a long … time horizon. Previous evidence suggests that the costs of peer punishment can be outweighed by the benefits of higher … cooperation, if (i ) there is a sufficiently long time horizon and (ii ) punishment cannot be avenged. However, in most instances …
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We investigate whether peer punishment is an efficient mechanism for enforcing cooperation in an experiment with a long … time horizon. Previous evidence suggests that the costs of peer punishment can be outweighed by the benefits of higher … cooperation, if (i) there is a sufficiently long time horizon and (ii) punishment cannot be avenged. However, in most instances in …
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Altruistic punishment is often thought to be a major enforcement mechanism of social norms. I present experimental … results from a modified version of the dictator game with third-party punishment, in which third parties can remain ignorant … initial ignorance. Remaining ignorant and choosing not to punish is not inappropriate. As a result, altruistic punishment is …
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' propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the government's management of …. People supporting stronger punishment are more likely to consider the government's reaction to the pandemic as insufficient …
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public goods experiment in which subjects were induced with the motives of Care and Anger through autobiographical recall …
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