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The provision of public goods with positive group interdependencies
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
This article examines the nature of human behavior in a nested social dilemma referred to as the Spillover Game. Players are divided into two groups with positive production interdependencies. Based on theoretically derived opportunistic, local, and global optima, our experimental results...
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Provision of multilevel public goods through positive externalities : experimental evidence
Güth, Werner; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2012
The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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Simultaneous Decision-Making in Competitive and Cooperative Environments
Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2012
We experimentally investigate simultaneous decision-making in two contrasting environments: one that encourages competition (lottery contest) and one that encourages cooperation (public good game). We find that simultaneous participation in the public good game affects behavior in the contest,...
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Feedback Spillover Effect on Competitiveness Across Unrelated Tasks
Huang, Lingbo - 2019
Employees typically work on multiple tasks that require unrelated skills and abilities. While past research strongly supports that relative performance feedback influences employee performance and effort allocation, little is known about the effect of relative performance feedback on employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864737
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Behavioral Spillovers in Coordination Games
Sheremeta, Roman M.; Cason, Timothy N.; Samek, Anya - 2012
spillovers for order-statistic coordination games. Subjects play the minimum- and median-effort coordination games simultaneously …
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When incentives backfire : spillover effects in food choice
Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; … - 2015
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes...
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Cost-reducing investments : an experimental approach
Schmutzler, Armin - In: Homo oeconomicus 30 (2013) 2, pp. 183-201
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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food …
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When incentives backfire : spillover effects in food choice
Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; … - 2016
Little is known about how peers influence the impact of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice in the school lunchroom (choice of grapes versus cookies), we randomize who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518000
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Spillovers from behavioral interventions : experimental evidence from water and energy use
Jessoe, Katrina; Lade, Gabriel E.; Loge, Frank; Spang, … - In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and … 8 (2021) 2, pp. 315-346
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